Jct. of US 44 and Wolf Den Rd., Town of Pomfret, Abington, Connecticut. County/parish: Windham.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 08, 1994. NRIS 94000336.
4 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure.
Gwyn Careg is a historic country estate at 68 Wolf Den Road in the Abington section of Pomfret, Connecticut. The main house on the property is a two-story brick structure built around 1760, altered in the late 19th century and again in the 1920s, giving it a Colonial Revival appearance. Eleanor Clark Murray developed the property as a country estate in the 1920s, including significant landscape design by William Jackson, a noted New York City landscape designer. The property has one of the most extensive collections of specimen trees in the state. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132356117