Last updated: June 6, 2024
Place
Khakum Wood
Olmsted Archives
Quick Facts
Location:
Greenwich, CT
Significance:
Olmsted Designed Estate
OPEN TO PUBLIC:
No
MANAGED BY:
Privately Owned
Returning to their fathers home state, Olmsted Brothers would work in partnership with architect Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, who had purchased about 180 acres of farmland in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1903, to design Khakum Wood.
Stokes bought the backcountry farm with the idea of subdividing the land into a series of houses. He contracted Olmsted Brothers to create the layout for the residential development.
Olmsted Brothers respected the natural topography of the land, which was accentuated with rock outcroppings. With irregular parcels of land ranging in size from less than one acre to over four, Olmsted Brothers chose to include circular roadways, to give more depth to the land.
Khakum Wood was planted with mountain laurel, dogwoods, azaleas, and evergreens, with a lake as the centerpiece. Today's Khakum Wood community still abides by the Olmsted curves.
Source: "I.N.Phelps Stokes," Olmsted Online
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr
Stokes bought the backcountry farm with the idea of subdividing the land into a series of houses. He contracted Olmsted Brothers to create the layout for the residential development.
Olmsted Brothers respected the natural topography of the land, which was accentuated with rock outcroppings. With irregular parcels of land ranging in size from less than one acre to over four, Olmsted Brothers chose to include circular roadways, to give more depth to the land.
Khakum Wood was planted with mountain laurel, dogwoods, azaleas, and evergreens, with a lake as the centerpiece. Today's Khakum Wood community still abides by the Olmsted curves.
Source: "I.N.Phelps Stokes," Olmsted Online
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr