Innis Arden was a guest cottage on the estate of J. Kennedy Tod in Sound Beach, Connecticut, now Old Greenwich.  In 1906 he offered it as a weekend retreat for the nurses of Presbyterian Hospital and the faculty and students of the Hospital’s Training School for Nurses (now the Columbia University School of Nursing). This use continued after the estate was sold by the Tod family to the hospital in 1925.  In 1945 Presbyterian Hospital sold the estate to the Town of Greenwich which turned it into Greenwich Point Park. Innis Arden cottage still exists as the park’s Floren Family Environmental Center.

Historical note based on Albert R. Lamb, “Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center 1868-1943: A History of a Great Medical Adventure” (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955); Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York: Thirty-Eighth Annual Report for the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1906; and the website of the Friends of Greenwich Point: http://www.friendsofgreenwichpoint.org/ accessed January 11, 2017.