The Government Tried to Demolish this Mansion for a Highway.. He said NO | Grahampton @ThisHouse
The Government Tried to Demolish this Mansion for a Highway.. He said NO | Grahampton @ThisHouse
Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Harry William Croft made his fortune supplying the firebricks that lined Andrew Carnegie's blast furnaces. When he retired in 1919, he bought five farms in Greenwich, Connecticut and assembled a 287-acre estate called Grahampton, complete with a stately brick manor by Pittsburgh architects Janssen & Abbott, and gardens designed in collaboration with the legendary Ellen Biddle Shipman.

Location: Greenwich, CT

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