Exploring the Hidden History of Manchester's Famous Cheney Mansions

Members of the extended Cheney family, who built up the legendary Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company, erected over a dozen mansions and large houses in the vicinity of the Great Lawn in South Manchester, Connecticut. Learn about these grand homes, as the family expanded from the original Cheney Homestead of 1785 to the massive Philip Cheney House of the 1920s, designed by noted architect (and Cheney family descendant) Charles Adams Platt. #manchesterct #manchester #connecticut #mansions #historichouses #architecture #charlesadamsplatt This video features images from the Library of Congress, the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, and the Manchester Historical Society and assets from Google Earth Studio. Support the site here: https://ko-fi.com/danielsterner Please check out my Substacks: REMEMBERING OLD HARTFORD: https://oldhartford.substack.com THAT'S HISTORICAL: https://dansterner.substack.com/ My Books (These are links to Amazon and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases): A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut: https://amzn.to/4bNbiAR Vanished Downtown Hartford: https://amzn.to/3IhK7Ao 00:00 Intro 02:30 Cheney Homestead 03:34 George Wells & John Sherwood Cheney & Maro Chapman 04:47 Frank Cheney 06:04 Rush Cheney 06:55 Charles A. Platt 07:26 Frank Cheney, JR 08:35 KD, Philip & Russell Cheney 09:42 Clifford Dudley Cheney 10:30 Frank W. Cheney 11:08 Ward & Charles Cheney 12:33 Horace Bushnell & Howell Cheney 13:41 John Davenport & Seth Leslie Cheney 14:51 Austin & Frank D. Cheney 15:48 Richard Otis Cheney