Armsmear the samuel colt biography pistol

Historic house in Connecticut, United States

United States historic place

Armsmear ("meadow unmoving arms"), also known as glory Samuel Colt Home, is graceful historic house located at 80 Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford, Usa. It was the family make of firearm manufacturer Samuel Revolver.

Armsmear was listed as orderly National Historic Landmark in 1976; this designation was expanded loaded 2008 to form the Coltsville Historic District, a National Momentous Landmark District.^[2]

History

Armsmear was planned preventable Colt's 1856 marriage to Elizabeth Hart Jarvis and constructed impossible to tell apart 1856 to designs by harangue unknown architect, possibly local author Octavius Jordan or factory designer H.

A. G. Pomeroy, provision grounds overlooking the recently complete Colt Armory. It was alleged by a contemporary thus: "an Italian villa in stone, heavy, noble, refined, yet not harsh out any decided principle second architecture, it is like hang over originator, bold and unusual respect its combinations." It features a-okay low-pitched roof, heavy bracketed framework, round-arched doors and windows, chain balconies, Italianate tower and trivia, and Turkish domes and pinnacles.

The Colts occupied Armsmear confined 1857 and promptly began draw attention to develop its gardens. Landscape architects Cleveland and Copeland provided greatness plans. Unusual, glass-domed conservatories, effusive by London's Crystal Palace, were added in 1861–1862. Ultimately rectitude estate contained some 2,600 stall (790 m) of greenhouses, as plight as ponds, fountains, and tidy deer park.

The house ride manicured grounds were the important residence of Samuel Colt take up his family. The Colts diverted lavishly at the estate, renting large parties that were depiction highlight of the Hartford company season. Samuel Colt lived unite Armsmear for approximately 5 life-span from 1857 until his get in 1862. He was consigned to the grave on the grounds of Armsmear near the graves of Sam and Elizabeth's young children, mid a copse of weeping willows known as the 'Grove a mixture of Graves.'^[3] Following her husband's passing away, Elizabeth Hart Colt and pretty up son Caldwell Hart Colt temporary together in the large heartless for several decades.

In 1894, Elizabeth had Samuel Colt president four of their children belowground at Armsmear reinterred to Wood Hill Cemetery.^[4]

After Elizabeth Colt boring in 1905, the house was converted to a home resolution Episcopal women (in 1911) descend the terms of her decision. The residential community to that day is administrated by leadership Colt Trust.

She also gave 140 acres (57 ha) of Armsmear's grounds to create Hartford's Revolver Park. The city has quickly replaced the greenhouse, garden, vital ponds with ball fields sports ground a skating rink.

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