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See Connecticut's Historic Gardens Day activities offered here June 26, 2011
 New London County Historical Society
and Shaw Mansion
11 Blinman Street
New London, CT 06320 | 860.443.1209
Hours
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 1–4 pm.
Mid-May–Mid-October:
Saturday, 10 am–4 pm
www.newlondonhistory.org
Shaw Mansion, built 1756, has been the home of the New London County Historical Society since 1907. It was modified by the great-grandson of the builder, Dr. Nathaniel Shaw Perkins, when he inherited it in 1845. Thus the portrayal of a formal "Victorian" garden in front of the house and a colonial garden in the rear of the house. A centerpiece of that is a summerhouse built as a "gentleman's folly" around 1792, on a granite ledge behind the Mansion where it captured the view and the breezes off the Thames River.
Connecticut's Historic Gardens Day, June 26, 2011 | 12–4 pm
Included in the regular admission price are special tours and lectures. In the morning, Connecticut Master Gardeners provide tours of the Shaw Mansion Garden. In the afternoon, Miss Perkins and some of her friends from the 1860s return to her garden with some period music to offer a guided tour sharing "the Language of Flowers." Presentations will be scheduled on the Shaw Mansion-Woodbridge Farm connection, and on the surprising connection between the Shaw Mansion gardens and famed modernist landscape designer Christopher Tunnard. Strawberry shortcake available.
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