Colt Park

Colt Park
Samuel Colt Memorial, Colt Park
Location Hartford, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°45′7″N 72°40′16″W / 41.75194°N 72.67111°W / 41.75194; -72.67111Coordinates: 41°45′7″N 72°40′16″W / 41.75194°N 72.67111°W / 41.75194; -72.67111
Area 106 acres (43 ha)
Built 1905
Part of Colt Industrial District (#76001987[1])
Added to NRHP June 8, 1976

Colt Park is a city park in the southeast Hartford, Connecticut neighborhood of Sheldon/Charter Oak. The 105 acres (42 ha) park was established from the former Armsmear Estate of Samuel Colt and Elizabeth Jarvis Colt which was gifted to the city upon her death in 1905. Today the 106 acres (43 ha) park is home to playgrounds, sports fields, a skating rink and Dillon Stadium.[2] Colt Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 1976, designated as part of the Colt Industrial District, valued for its association with industrialist Samuel Colt. It is bounded by Wawarme, Wethersfield, Hendricsen, Van Dyke Avenues and Stonington, Maseek and Sequassen Streets.[3]

The grounds were originally developed in High Victorian Gothic style, and served as Colt's exclusive "pleasure-grounds." It was complete with large reflecting pools, rustic furnishings, fountains, urns, statuary, artificial ponds for fish and foul, a deer park, orchards, fields and more.

Pope Park and Colt Park were the last major additions to the City of Hartford Parks System in 1898 and 1905, respectively. The two parks were intended to serve the traditionally working-class Hartford neighborhoods of Frog Hollow, Parkville, and Front Street.[4]

Dillon Stadium

The lands for Dillon Stadium were a part of the original Colt gift. The stadium was Federal Emergency Relief Administration relief project and was dedicated in 1935, with the related Field House erected in 1939. Stadium seating capacity is 9,600, and includes a block west of the stadium for dedicated surface parking.[5] It has been host to various concerts and sports teams throughout its history. It is the current the home of the New England Nightmare of the Women's Football Alliance (WFA).[6]

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References

  1. ↑ Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Hartford Parks Department. "Colt Park and Dillon Stadium". hartford.gov. City of Hartford. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  3. ↑ O'Connell, PhD, James C.; Bruce Clouette (2007-08-31). "National Historic Landmark Nomination, NPS Form 10-900" (PDF). United States National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
  4. ↑ "City of Hartford Parks System". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. 16 December 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  5. ↑ msassofoxct (4 June 2014). "Hartford Recruiting NASL Soccer Franchise". http://foxct.com (WITC). Retrieved 10 August 2014. External link in |work= (help)
  6. ↑ Menard, Vonda. "New England NightMare Football Season Opener". The Courant. Retrieved April 5, 2013.

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