Property on Meadow Road, Hartford
SurveyorSurveyed by
Unknown
DraftsmanDrawn by
Unknown
Dateabout 1900
MediumDrawing; black ink on tracing linen
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 9 7/8 x 36 7/8in. (25.1 x 93.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 12 x 39in. (30.5 x 99.1cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number1970.27.9
DescriptionPlat map showing lots along both sides of Meadow Road and Fishfry Street in the North Meadows of Hartford, Connecticut. Names of property owners include Richard Mather, James C. Pratt, George Cook, A. Dudley Cook, Mary E. Marsh, James E. Marsh, Thomas Gates, the estate of Henry Kennedy, Frank H. Mather, Arthur Mather, O. T. Mather, E. D. Denslow, Albert E. Mather, Mrs. Dwight M. Porter, Mrs. Amelia S. Sage, Mrs. Sarah Lane, Laura and Alice Mather, Mrs. Lewis Herrick, Nancy E. Mather, Edward Balf, John N. Risley, Seth Kenyon, and Dexter P. Mather. Riverfront Park (Riverside Park) and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad are at the far right. Dimensions of lots on Meadow Road are given.
Label TextFrederick Law Olmsted once told Hartford, Connecticut's park commissioner Francis Goodwin that it was the rare beauty of Hartford's north meadows seen as a young man that had inspired him to become a landscape architect. In 1900, when the Hartford Park Commission proposed cutting a road through these meadows to connect Riverside Park with Keney Park, some property owners objected. Arthur Mather claimed that the road would ruin the fine hay meadow from which hemade his living. John N. Risley objected that the road would cut through his ice houses. Though it is not clear that this map is directly related to this project, it shows the area where the road would have been constructed.
NotesCartographic Note: No scaleSubject Note: Meadow Road in Hartford's North Meadows has no connection with Meadow Road in Hartford's South Meadows. Fishfry Street takes it name from fishfries that were once held there during the spring run of alewives.
Status
Not on view
James Sidney Brainard
Timothy Mather Allyn
Silvermine Production
1973