Armsmear: Samuel Colt's Estate in Hartford, Connecticut

This video is about Armsmear, the estate of Samuel Colt in Hartford, Connecticut. The mansion survives today but the landscape, which once included picturesque ponds, statuary and an extensive complex of greenhouses, has been replaced with athletic facilities and a lawn.

Some related links:
Coltsville National Historical park: https://www.nps.gov/colt/index.htm
Colt Park Foundation: https://coltpark.org/
Armsmear (1866) by Henry Barnard: https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
The Homes of America VII: Armsmear, from The Art Journal (1876): https://archive.org/details/jstor-205...

An image of the Colt residence grounds in this video is from the collections of the Connecticut Historical Society: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19300
Some of the images used in this video are from the Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company Collection (PG 460) at the Connecticut State Library:
Armsmear archway: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:720...
Armsmear mansion: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:720...
Colt Armory ruins: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:720...
Some of the images in this video are from the collections of the Hartford History Center at the Hartford Public Library:
View in Colt's Park: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:5428
View in Colt's Park: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:5427
Statue of Hebe, Colt Park, Hartford (1921): http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3725
Statue of Apollo, Colt Park, Hartford (1921): http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3724
Statue of Diana, Colt Park, Hartford (1921): http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3728
Statue of goats, Colt Park, Hartford (1921): http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3722
Lattice-work pavilion, Colt Park, Hartford (1921): http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3720
Gardeners building, Colt Park, Hartford (1921): http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3718
Greenhouses, Colt Park, Hartford (1921): http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3715
School Gardens at Colt Park: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:14566
School Gardens at Colt Park: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:14567
School Gardens at Colt Park: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:14565
Twelve horses in a line (Colt Park), Hartford, December 18, 1920: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:3654

Some of the images in this video are from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection at the Library of Congress:

Colt’s Armory: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016804525/
Residence of Mrs. Samuel Colt: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016806353/
Colt Park: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016795053/
Colt Memorial and lake at Colt Park: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016809785/
Colt Memorial: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016806354/


Some of the images in this video are from the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library:
View at Armsmear, residence of Mrs. Samuel Colt: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...
View at Armsmear, residence of Mrs. Samuel Colt: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...
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