A silk fortune,
kept in its rooms.
Built in 1864 for the Cheney family — Connecticut silk barons whose mills shaped the textile world — the mansion sits on a small hill at 131 Hartford Road, surrounded by mature trees, walled gardens, and a koi pond dating to the early 1900s.
Charles Cheney (1866 – 1942), eldest son of Frank Woodbridge Cheney and once President and Chairman of Cheney Brothers, made this his home. The English Tudor he kept here is now part of the Cheney Brothers National Historic Landmark District — one of the most intact mill-village ensembles in the United States.