Edgewood Park Historic District is a historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 in New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1986. In 1986, it included 231 contributing buildings, 4 other contributing structures, and 1 contributing object.

Work by architect Donald Grant Mitchell

Donald Grant Mitchell

Donald Grant Mitchell was an American essayist and novelist.-Biography:Mitchell, the grandson of politician and jurist Stephen Mix Mitchell, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1841, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and studied law, but he soon took up...

 is represented.
According to its 1986 NRHP nomination:

Edgewood Park Historic District is New Haven's finest, most intact and cohesive example of a large residential neighborhood whose initial development was actively fostered by the city under the design and planning tenets embodied by the late nineteenth-century City Beautiful movement

City Beautiful movement

The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy concerning North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of using beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. The movement, which was originally associated mainly with Chicago,...

, a movement designed to achieve an harmonious balance between the natural and built environment within the context of the urban setting.

The district borders the Dwight Street Historic District

Dwight Street Historic District

The Dwight Street Historic District is an irregularly-shaped historic district in New Haven, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 1983, out of 629 buildings in the district 595 were deemed contributing buildings...

 on the east.

The district includes Edgewood Park, including memorials for the Spanish-American War and the Holocaust. The park's current layout was designed in 1910 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., son of Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...

. The district also includes the central portion of the Edgewood neighborhood, which is generally the area bounded by Whalley Avenue, Sherman Avenue, Chapel Street, and Edgewood Park.

The main east-west road in the neighborhood is Edgewood Avenue and is served by the Q route of Connecticut Transit New Haven

Connecticut Transit New Haven

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. The main north-south road is Ella Grasso Boulevard (Route 10).

External links

• Edgewood Park Historic District, New Haven Preservation Trust website (text adapted from NRHP nomination)