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Hill–Stead Museum is a Colonial Revival house and art museum set on a large estate at 35 Mountain Road in Farmington, Connecticut. It is best known for its French Impressionist masterpieces, architecture, and stately grounds.
Hill-Stead, now a museum, was created on 250 acres (1.0 km 2) of Farmington Mountain as a country estate for wealthy industrialist Alfred Atmore Pope, to the designs of his daughter Theodate Pope Riddle in 1901. Theodate inherited the house after her parents deaths, and prior to her own passing in 1946 willed Hill-Stead Museum as a memorial to ...
She designed Hill-Stead, the family estate (now Hill–Stead Museum) in Farmington, and designed and founded the Avon Old Farms School in Avon, as well as Westover School. Her best-known architectural commission was the 1920 reconstruction of the birthplace in New York City of former President Theodore Roosevelt.
The Farmington Historic District encompasses a 275-acre (111 ha) area of the town center of Farmington, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The area roughly corresponds to the section of Route 10 between Route 4 and U.S. Route 6, and includes 115 buildings, primarily residences, built before 1835.
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Tim McGraw will be performing a concert at the Field of Dreams movie site later this year, and there's a very special meaning behind the date on which it will take place.. The country crooner is ...
Farmington is a town in Hartford County in the Farmington Valley area of central Connecticut in the ... resided at Hill-Stead from 1901 to 1913; father of Theodate ...
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