Codman House and Gardens

In the 1790s, John Codman carried out extensive improvements to the original Georgian house and surrounding grounds. John Codman wished to create an English landscape park (c 1798). Five generations of the Codman family lived here. The gardens have a hidden Italian garden (c. 1900), perennial beds, and a lily pool and an English cottage garden, (c1930). The Italian garden was designed with the help of Edith Wharton. As in her own garden, she knew what she ought to do but lacked sufficient design talent for the job.