Colt Park is a city park in the southeast Hartford, Connecticut neighborhood of Sheldon/Charter Oak. The 106-acre (43 ha) park was established from the former Armsmear Estate of Samuel Colt and Elizabeth Jarvis Colt which was gifted to the city upon her death in 1905. Today the park is home to playgrounds, sports fields, a pool and Dillon Stadium.[2] Colt Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 8, 1976, designated as part of the Colt Industrial District, valued for its association with industrialist Samuel Colt. It is bounded by Wawarme, Wethersfield, Hendricxsen, Van Dyke Avenues and Stonington, Maseek and Sequassen Streets.[3]
The grounds were originally developed in High Victorian Gothic style, and served as Colt's exclusive "pleasure-grounds." It was complete with large reflecting pools, rustic furnishings, fountains, urns, statuary, artificial ponds for fish and foul, a deer park, orchards, fields and more.
Pope Park and Colt Park were the last major additions to the City of Hartford Parks System in 1898 and 1905, respectively. The two parks were intended to serve the traditionally working-class Hartford neighborhoods of Frog Hollow, Parkville, and Front Street.[4]
In 2019, Public Field #9 was renamed in honor of Hartford native and Negro league baseball player Johnny "Schoolboy" Taylor.[5]
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^Hartford Parks Department. "Colt Park and Dillon Stadium". hartford.gov. City of Hartford. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
^O'Connell, PhD, James C.; Bruce Clouette (August 31, 2007). "National Historic Landmark Nomination, NPS Form 10-900" (PDF). United States National Park Service. Retrieved September 3, 2008.
^"City of Hartford Parks System". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. The Cultural Landscape Foundation. December 16, 2009. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
^"Hartford Ballpark to be Named for Negro League Star". December 11, 2019. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
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