From Richard Flint #2

2 – Barnum always kept his autobiography up-to-date and by 1882 he offered this view of his 10-acre winter quarters, a very good bird’s eye view. As seen in the previous poster, however, this artist fails to show the set-back of the large car barn on the right and the spur tracks curving into it. The several long, sloping sheds abutting both buildings and another shed-like structure along the fence on the right near the elephants are accurate. In the foreground, we see the tracks of the main line of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The three connected buildings in the back (for the paint, wheelwright, harness and blacksmith shops) appear oversize and extend closer than actual to the car barn. The left barn housed the menagerie in the front and a ring barn in the back; only the center third had a second floor and it was used for storage. The lean-to sheds alongside stored wagons. The car barn on the right also housed a paint room in the back; the sheds on both sides stored hay, wagons, and some livestock. The street in front of the winter quarters is, logically, Railroad Avenue. The lower right corner of the drawing is close to the intersection with Norman Street (not shown). For a long while during this era there was a building on the corner for the Bridgeport Silver Co. but the rest of the land along Norman St. was Barnum’s and likely was an area for elephants to exercise as shown here.