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Crazy article.. A "demented" woman by the name of Menthol Sweeney sets fire to a barn on what is now Conyers Farms in backcountry Greenwich, CT.
Afterwards I googled Converse Farm too see what came of it:
MRS. SWEENEY IN SANITARIUM; Denies Setting Fire to Converse's Barn -- Believed to Be Insane.
STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 29. -- Araminta Sweeney, who was suspected of incendiarism when the $10,000 burn on Conyer's Manor, the estate of E.C. Converse, the steel magnate, in Greenwich, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday night, has been committed temporarily to a sanitarium by Judge Charles D. Lockwood in this place.
SAYS THREAT UPSET HIS NIECE'S MIND; Miss Sweeney's Mental..
STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 2. -- The acute mental condition of Araminta Sweeney, the woman accused of writing anonymous letters and making threats against Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Converse, is due largely to an anonymous letter which she herself received last January, according to Charles Brown, her uncle by marriage.
GREENWICH RECORDS BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL (Pay Article)
GREENWICH Conn June 10AP Fourteen hundred acres of the Converse Farm one of the largest estates in the town of Greenwich
Converse Farm Sold For Building Lots, Brings $1,400,000 (Pay Article)
"Banksville was named after Samuel Banks, who settled on the upper reaches of the Mianus River in the northeast comer of Greenwich in 1700. For the next 200 years it was a quiet farming community, but in 1904 Edmund Converse assembled more than 1,000 acres to create Greenwich's greatest estate, with forty buildings and a staff of 200. Farming operations continued up until 1960. It then lay fallow for twenty years when it was finally sold to the Conyers Farm Partnership and its 1,468 acres subdivided into sixty lots. Conyers Farm is the home of many well-known residents who can afford its magnificent ten -acre lots. It is also the locale for the Greenwich Polo Club where many town residents go to enjoy the polo games on a Sunday afternoon. (As an interesting sidelight, Conyers Farm would not exist nor would most of backcountry Greenwich be the same, had a proposal in 1945 to locate the headquarters of the United Nations here not been defeated by an alarmed group of Greenwich citizens.)
Banksville's small business center near the New York State line is reminiscent of a simpler time. Many of its residents refer to Banksville as the land that time has forgotten. "
Afterwards I googled Converse Farm too see what came of it:
MRS. SWEENEY IN SANITARIUM; Denies Setting Fire to Converse's Barn -- Believed to Be Insane.
STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 29. -- Araminta Sweeney, who was suspected of incendiarism when the $10,000 burn on Conyer's Manor, the estate of E.C. Converse, the steel magnate, in Greenwich, was destroyed by fire last Wednesday night, has been committed temporarily to a sanitarium by Judge Charles D. Lockwood in this place.
SAYS THREAT UPSET HIS NIECE'S MIND; Miss Sweeney's Mental..
STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 2. -- The acute mental condition of Araminta Sweeney, the woman accused of writing anonymous letters and making threats against Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Converse, is due largely to an anonymous letter which she herself received last January, according to Charles Brown, her uncle by marriage.
GREENWICH RECORDS BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL (Pay Article)
GREENWICH Conn June 10AP Fourteen hundred acres of the Converse Farm one of the largest estates in the town of Greenwich
Converse Farm Sold For Building Lots, Brings $1,400,000 (Pay Article)
"Banksville was named after Samuel Banks, who settled on the upper reaches of the Mianus River in the northeast comer of Greenwich in 1700. For the next 200 years it was a quiet farming community, but in 1904 Edmund Converse assembled more than 1,000 acres to create Greenwich's greatest estate, with forty buildings and a staff of 200. Farming operations continued up until 1960. It then lay fallow for twenty years when it was finally sold to the Conyers Farm Partnership and its 1,468 acres subdivided into sixty lots. Conyers Farm is the home of many well-known residents who can afford its magnificent ten -acre lots. It is also the locale for the Greenwich Polo Club where many town residents go to enjoy the polo games on a Sunday afternoon. (As an interesting sidelight, Conyers Farm would not exist nor would most of backcountry Greenwich be the same, had a proposal in 1945 to locate the headquarters of the United Nations here not been defeated by an alarmed group of Greenwich citizens.)
Banksville's small business center near the New York State line is reminiscent of a simpler time. Many of its residents refer to Banksville as the land that time has forgotten. "
2 comments:
As a teenager in the 70's we used to sneak into the old estate and explore. It was a truly awesome old place. That was an unbelievable level of luxury.
Eventually too many people came to know about it and the vandalism started. Here's a few links with more info:
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c10491/
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/05/nyregion/a-new-beginning-for-an-old-estate.html
I would love to see any other pics of the old place.
Dave Bross
Thanks for the info, Dave!! Do you have any other info on any other abandoned/unique places around town?
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