Type House Other dimensions 90-acre estate | Architectural style Country | |
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Location 2468B Washington Street (Route 138)
Canton, Massachusetts Governing body The Trustees of Reservations Similar Old Colony History Museum, Cormier Woods, Governor Hutchinson's Field, Gardner Heritage State Park, Fork Factory Brook | ||
The Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate is a nonprofit country house and garden ground museum in Canton, Massachusetts. It is operated by The Trustees of Reservations. The grounds are open every day, sunrise to sunset, without charge.
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Map of Eleanor Cabot Bradley Estate, Canton, MA 02021, USA
History
In 1902, Dr. Arthur Tracey Cabot (b. 1852 in Boston to Dr. Samuel Cabot III and Hannah Lowell Jackson Cabot) hired architect Charles A. Platt to design a country house with landscaping and outlying farm buildings. Its formal grounds include lawns, a walled garden, and a parterre. Dr. Cabot had seven siblings, but no children. The estate was passed on to his niece, Eleanor Cabot (daughter of his brother, Godfrey Lowell Cabot), who married Major Ralph Bradley in 1919.
In 1945, she added ponds, a camellia house and greenhouse, and planted specimen trees. Additional land includes more than 60 acres (240,000 m2) of meadows and woods, with some 3 miles (4.8 km) of walking trails.