HDC Chair Stephen Bishop, Conyers Manor, Cedar Cliff, 1778, William G. Rockefeller Dies, Standard Oil & Greenwich

HDC Chair Stephen Bishop, Conyers Manor, Cedar Cliff, 1778, William G. Rockefeller Dies, Standard Oil & GreenwichFor your listening enjoyment! Here is the Tuesday, December 6,  2022 episode of the Greenwich, A Town For All Seasons Show Podcast.This podcast is made possible by Site Design Associates; the Long Island Sound Institute (LISI), the Ambassador Museum United States of America, Kevin M. J. O'Connor of Jeffrey Matthews Wealth Management, and listeners like you everywhere on the Atlantic Learning Consortium Network!“By the age of fifty-two years, Edmund C. Converse had a notable impact on American business,” according to The Great Estates: Greenwich, Connecticut 1880-1930, published in 1986 by the Junior League of Greenwich. On today’s show you’ll hear about his estate, Conyers Manor. “Not only did Conyers Manor overshadow the other grandly conceived homes in Greenwich, it was also one of the most profitable estates in the Northeast.” On Talk of the Town, we’ll share an encore conversation from 2018 with Stephen Bishop, chair of the Greenwich Historic District Commission. The commission has been in the news recently with preservation activities underway regarding the Samuel Ferris House (1760) in Riverside, and the Havemeyer Building on Greenwich Avenue. On The Judge’s Corner, Judge Frederick A. Hubbard wrote about Cedar Cliff, the home of Actor Edwin Booth, which in turn became the site of the Cos Cob Power Plant and, today, Cos Cob Park. It was one-hundred years ago when Greenwich resident William G. Rockefeller died on December 1, 1922. In a related bit of history, Erwin Edwards penned a piece for his column Greenwich Life As It Is -And Was regarding Greenwich and the relationship with the Standard Oil Company.We'll go back in history to the year 1778 as found in Before 2000: A Chronology of the Town of Greenwich 1640-1999.Tis the season! There's lots for you to see, do and enjoy as the December holidays fast approach. You’ve come to the right place to learn about the history of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of America's most interesting and extraordinary communities.  We’ll have all this -and more- as history continues to unfold.