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Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, national historic landmark in Norwalk CT Victorian architecture.Brings history to life for schools.
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The Lockwood–Mathews Mansion is a Second Empire style country house in Norwalk, Connecticut. Now a museum, it was built in 1864-68 for railroad and banking magnate LeGrand Lockwood.
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is regarded as one of the earliest and most significant Second Empire Style country houses in the United States. Built by renowned financier and railroad tycoon LeGrand Lockwood from 1864-1868, the Mansion, with its unparalleled architecture and interiors, illustrates magnificently the beauty and splendor of ...
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- 1965-1969
- Later Twentieth Century
- Twenty-First Century
1861 -62 LeGrand Lockwood sponsors “Firework on the Green,” Fourth of July fireworks in front of his Norwalk “summer” residence near St. Paul’s Episcopal Churchduring the summer of 1861 and 1862. 1862 Company F of the Union Army’s 17thConnecticut Volunteer Infantry is called “Lockwood’s Guards.” LeGrand Lockwood paid a bounty of $10 per man, for a ...
1865 Lambert & Bunnell of Bridgeport is reported to be the architects of the estate’s Gate Lodge. The Norwalk Gazettereports in August that LeGrand Lockwood and his family will occupy the Gate Lodge that winter. TheNorwalk Gazettereports that William Trubee, the landscape gardener to P.T. Barnum, laid out the grounds of Elm Park and the “entire plo...
1870 US Federal Census for Norwalk records that Lockwood had 9 servants (2 gardeners; 1 coachman, 1 cook and 5 house maids) living on the estate. 1871 Mansion and outbuildings are completed. LeGrand Lockwood considers adding a “Palace Car”, or Drawing Room Car, on the Danbury & Norwalk Railroad. 1872 Feb. 24: LeGrand Lockwood, age 52 years old, die...
1893-1896 Charles T. Mathews publishes The Renaissance Under the Valois (1893) and The Story of Architecture(1896). Both books were largely successful and used as textbooks at universities including Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. 1900-1906 Charles T. Mathews is selected to design the Lady Chapel at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City. The first Ma...
1941 Property purchased by City of Norwalk for $170,000. Used as emergency war-time offices and storage of heavy equipment. 1944 October: City of Norwalk runs hastily called auction of Mansion furnishings. 1950 Norwalk Redevelopment Agency begins urban renewal of downtown corridor. The Mansion is used for city offices. 1954 Estate barn demolished. ...
1961 City schedules Mansion demolition; Citizens unite and protest. The battle to “Save Norwalk Mansion” was sparked by Elsie Hill, an indomitable lady in her late 70s, who roused citizens to band together. They sought to preserve the Mansion and make it a local museum and civic meeting space, while restoring the grounds as a public park. Historic ...
1965 Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors ruled to preserve the Mansion and Veteran’s Park as a public space. The Junior League of Stamford-Norwalk, Inc. signs a $1 a year 30-year lease with the City. The Junior League became the Mansion’s new tenant and on its docket was returning the “elegant but battered” house to its former splendor. The Junior ...
1970 HUD awards Mansion $100,000 grant for preservation projects in urban areas. March: Antiques Magazinepublishes Margaret Donald Schaack’s article “History in Houses; The Lockwood Mathews Mansion,” the first national article on the Mansion’s history and significance. The Mansion appears in the ABC television series “Dark Shadows” and feature film...
2000 Restoration of Library cornice and Entrance Hall mantel. 2001 Exterior original paint color samples taken and analyzed, then exterior repainted in original paint color. 2004 The Mansion used as set for the remake of “The Stepford Wives.” 2006 Candlelight Ball raises $50,000 to fund Scalamandre reproducing Library’s original embossed and engrav...
Located in Mathews Park on West Avenue at the junction of I-95 and Route 7, it is one of the earliest and finest surviving Second Empire style country houses in the United States. It is built of granite and has stenciled walls, inlaid woodwork, and a skylight rotunda.
Once known as “Elm Park,” the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is regarded as one of the great Renaissance Revival houses of the 19th century still extant. The unparalleled Gilded Age interiors and furniture in this National Historic Landmark illustrate the beauty and splendor of the Victorian Era.
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This home was built between 1864-and 1868 for LeGrand Lockwood, who died in 1872. It sold to Charles D. Mathews in 1876. It remained in the Mathews family until 1939 when it was leased to the City of Norwalk.
