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Brookfield Craft Center, located in Brookfield, Connecticut, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, [2] founded in 1954 with the mission "to teach and preserve the skills of fine craftsmanship and enable creativity and personal growth through craft education."
Brookfield Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It includes the 43-acre (17 ha) Brookfield Center Historic District around the intersection of Connecticut Routes 25 and 133 , as well as surrounding residential neighborhoods.
Brookfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, situated within the southern foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. [1] The population was 17,528 at the 2020 census. [2] The town is located 55 miles (89 km) northeast of New York City, making it part of the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA combined statistical area. [3]
Virgil Geddes, playwright, political activist, and founder of the Brookfield Players; Joseph Hayes, novelist and playwright, author of The Desperate Hours; Gabriel Heatter, radio news commentator and journalist [2] Lucia Ruggles Holman (1793-1886), teacher, letter writer, missionary
Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE RA RDI HonFREng (born 17 February 1970) [1] is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. He works with a team of more than 200 architects, designers and entrepreneurs from his studio in King's Cross, London.
In 1975 the Town Hall was again moved to new quarters and the Brookfield Museum and Historical Society leased the structure. [5] Danbury & Bethel Gas and Electric Company brought electricity to Brookfield in 1915. [7] After Candlewood Lake was created, parts of the town of New Fairfield were left on the
In 2000, Crawford founded the Man and Well-Being department at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. In 2003, she established the interiors firm Studio Ilse, which designed the Soho House club in New York, Babington House, the Electric Cinema, and the Hong Kong restaurant Duddell's, as well as pieces for Georg Jensen and IKEA. [4]
The Brookfield Theatre for the Arts is a theater located in the historic Curtis School for Boys gymnasium building in Brookfield, Connecticut, located within the Brookfield Center Historic District. The theater has a capacity of 135 people and hosts a variety of entertainment events such as films, plays, and musical performances.