At the height of the Gilded Age America’s wealthiest families begin to cluster in Newport, Southampton, Bar Harbor and Tuxedo Park. In these idyllic locales they built luxurious “summer cottages” away from the grit and grime of New York, Boston or Philadelphia. The Belle Haven peninsula in Greenwich, Connecticut is home to one of America's first planned residential parks.
My Talk of the Town guest on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 is Matt Bernard, author of Victorian Summer: The Historic Houses of Belle Haven Park, Greenwich, Connecticut. This meticulously researched and richly illustrated book focuses on the great flowering of Belle Haven from 1884 to 1929.
You can purchase copies at your favorite online book source, at the Greenwich Historical Society's gift shop in Cos Cob, and Diane's Books of Greenwich.
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