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The Frederic Remington House is a historic house at 36 Oak Knoll Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut. A National Historic Landmark, it was the home of the painter and sculptor Frederic Remington (1861–1909) in the last few months of his life. Remington and his wife Eva designed the two-story gambrel -roofed, fieldstone -and-shingle house. [ 2]
Frederic Sackrider Remington (October 4, 1861 – December 26, 1909) was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in the genre of Western American Art. His works are known for depicting the Western United States in the last quarter of the 19th century and featuring such images as cowboys, American Indians, and the ...
Coordinates. 44°41′55″N 75°29′37″W / . 44.69863°N 75.493683°W. / 44.69863; -75.493683. Type. Art museum. Website. www.fredericremington.org. The Frederic Remington Art Museum is an art museum in Ogdensburg, New York, that focuses on the work of Frederic Remington .
Remington Historic District is a national historic district located at Remington, Fauquier County, Virginia. It encompasses 131 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in the rural village of Remington. The district consists primarily of late-19th- and early-20th-century dwellings, churches, and commercial ...
The footprint of the house covers approximately 1 acre (4,000 m 2) or 43,000 square feet of the 14 acres (5.7 ha) estate on the cliffs overlooking Easton Bay of the Atlantic Ocean. [ 3 ] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
The house was only briefly in the possession of the Remington family as in 1941, the US Army took ownership of the estate for the expansion of Pine Camp. In 1941, with the outbreak of World War II, the federal government granted the expansion of Pine Camp by 75,000 acres. [ 13 ]
The Bronco Buster (also The Broncho Buster per convention at the time of sculpting) is a sculpture made of bronze copyrighted in 1895 by American artist Frederic Remington. It portrays a rugged cowboy character fighting to stay aboard a rearing, plunging bucking horse, with a stirrup swinging free, a quirt in one hand and a fistful of mane and ...
Ocean View (Norfolk) Coordinates: 36°57′00″N 76°14′47″W. East Beach in Ocean View, along the Chesapeake Bay. Ocean View is a coastal region in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States. It has several miles of shoreline on the Chesapeake Bay to the north, starting with Willoughby Spit to the west and the Joint ...