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Cranbury is a neighborhood or section in the northeast corner of the city of Norwalk in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. ...
Fairfield County is located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport[3] Largest metro area Hartford Metro Area[2] Area Ranked 48th - Total 5,543[4] sq mi (14,356 km²) - Width 70 miles (113 km) - Length 110 miles (177 km) - % water 12. ...
The Save Cranbury Association, a local community group, describes itself as an "association of citizens dedicated to the preservation of the historical, rural quality of Cranbury area of Norwalk".[1]
Cranbury Park Cranbury Park, almost 220 acres in size (or 192 acres, accounts differ[2][3]), is located in the neighborhood.
Dog walking and frisbee playing is popular in the park, and there is a children's playbround. The park also features many trails.[3]
The property had been the estate of Edward B. Gallaher, owner (since 1894) of the Clover Manufacturing Company[3] on Main Avenue, which made industrial abrasives such as sandpaper.[2] He began buying the land, which was previously farmland owned by different families, in the 1920s. After Gallaher's death, the property was left to his alma mater, Stavens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, which continued to own it while Gallagher's wife lived there. After she died, the institute sold it to the city in 1965.[2] The Gallaher mansion, still on the property, is a 62-room, eighteenth century-style English fieldstone manor house built in 1930 or 1931 (accounts differ[2][3]). The mansion, which is now used for community meetings and weddings, has oak paneling, French doors and stained glass windows.[3] Map of New Jersey highlighting Hoboken Image of Hoboken taken by NASA (red line shows where Hoboken is). ...
In May 2006 the city Recreation and Parks Committee held a public hearing on proposed rules to restrict unleashed dogs to the orchard area of the park. The hearing drew strong opposition and the proposal was tabled. Spurred initially by the leash controversy, Friends of Cranbury Park formed that month both to support keeping many areas open to unleashed dogs and to improve the park in general. In July 2006 the group planted more than 50 perennials, including butterfly and Rose-of-Sharon bushes, to create a butterfly garden in the park.[4]
A new entrance and exit to the park, lined with daffodils planted by volunteers the previous October, were opened in May 2007. Near the new front gates, the city plans to make a partially refurbished pump house into an information center where a person will be assigned to track visitors and alert them to park regulations. One of the former entrances to the park, on Grumman Avenue, will become an exit, according to city officials. The Kensett Avenue entrance was to be closed and only used for emergencies or large events. Officials of the city Parks and Recreation Department said in early 2007 that it plans to restore the estate's formal gardens and small, 800-square-foot tea house.[2]
White Barn Theatre The late actress Lucille Lortel founded The White Barn Theatre in 1947 on her 18.5-acre estate at the corner of Cranbury Road and Newtown Avenue.[5] Born Lucille Wadler in New York City on December 16, 1900, Lucille Lortel was originally an actress in the 1920s (she once recollected comparing breast sizes with Helen Hayes), who went on to become an Off-Broadway theater producer and empresaria with the help of a wealthy husband. ...
With the theater, created from an old horse barn on the estate, Lortel aimed to present unusual and experimental plays, promote new playwrights, composers, actors, directors and designers, and help established artists develop new directions in ways they might not have been able to do in commercial theater.[5]
Plays by numerous well-known dramatists started at the 148-seat[6] theater (some of which went on to commercial success elsewhere).[5] Among the playwrights who premiered works at the theater were Sean O'Casey, Eugene Ionesco, Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Terrence McNally and Lanford Wilson. Actors Milo O'Shea and Eileen Heckart trod the boards at the theater. Sean OCasey Sean OCasey (March 30, 1880 - September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memorist. ...
Eugène Ionesco (Romanian spelling: Eugen Ionescu) (November 26, 1912 - March 28, 1994) was one of the foremost playwrights of the theater of the absurd. ...
Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ...
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. ...
Terrence McNally (born November 3, 1939), is an American playwright. ...
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On September 26, 1992 the White Barn Theatre Museum was set up by expanding and renovating a former small storage area off of the theater.[5]
Lortel bequeathed the property to her theater foundation, which later proposed putting a housing development and possibly a school on the site, something opposed by members of the Save Cranbury Association.[1]
The Connecticut Friends School, which bought the property and received zoning approval to construct a new school building on it, planned (as of the summer of 2007) to keep and renovate the theater.
Connecticut Friends School In July 2007 the Connecticut Friends School (CFS) of neighboring Wilton, Connecticut received zoning approval to build a new school on the site of the White Barn Theatre and Lucille Lortell's estate. as of late July, the school needed a building permit in order to proceed.[7] Wilton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, in the United States. ...
The school would be 24,000 square feet in size and would have a "vegetative roof", solar panels, and be built around a hill, which was expected to decrease heating and cooling costs. The building would be set back more than 100 feet from the pond on the property and 5.5 acres of the 15.5-acre site would be preserved as open space in perpetuity. A co-director of the Save Cranbury Association, created by area residents who were concerned about potential use of the property, told the city Zoning Commission in 2007 that she supported the school's move. The building would cover 3.09 percent of the property, although zoning in the AA residence zone it is located in allows for 25 percent coverage. Only four or five schools in the city have as much land as the school.[7]
The school is designed to serve a maximum of 125 students, and the traffic analysis, septic system and space for parking are all planned with that level of enrollment in mind. As of 2007, the school provided one small bus for students.[7]
Notes - ^ a b [1]Home page, "Save Cranbury Association" Web site, accessed April 17, 2007
- ^ a b c d e Chamoff, Lisa, "collection to honor park's history", news article in The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, April 9, 2007, pp A7, A8
- ^ a b c d e [2]Web page titled "Cranbury Park" at the "NY-NJ-CT Botany Online" Web site, accessed April 17, 2007
- ^ Koch, Robert, "Cranbury friends brave heat for butterflies", news article in The Hour of Norwalk, July 18, 2006, pages 1, A8
- ^ a b c d [3]Web page titled "Biography" at the Lucille Lortel Foundation Web site, accessed April 17, 2007
- ^ [4]"The Arboretum" newsletter of the Religious Society of Friends in Wilton, "fifth month", 2006, accessed April 17, 2007
- ^ a b c Garrison, Lauren, "Special Permit Granted for Friends School", news article in the Norwalk Citizen-News, July 27, 2007, pp A3-A10
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