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In 1955, the museum made its final move to the former Henri Bendel estate, where it continues to attract over 160,000 visitors each year. Henri Willis Bendel was a department-store pioneer and philanthropist who, with architect Perry Barker, built his dream castle in North Stamford in the late 1920s.
It has a collection of works by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, who was a Stamford resident for a decade. Bendel Mansion at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center The nature center's farm includes llamas, pigs, and sheep. In early 2007, more than seven lambs were born at the farm, as well as some piglets.
Formerly the Walnut Grove Plantation, he built a house on the property he called Camellia Lodge. Sold and eventually subdivided for housing, it is known today as Bendel Gardens. [7] In addition, in the late 1920s, Bendel built a mansion on a hill overlooking Laurel Lake in Stamford, Connecticut, designed by architect Perry Barker. [8]
An undisclosed buyer purchased the sprawling property for $2.9 million, which Complex reports is far less than the $14.5 million it listed for in 2007.
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Begun as a single-story, one-room house and later expanded to a two-story, two-room house by 1726. General David Humphreys House: Ansonia: 1698 Home of the first U.S. Ambassador, now a museum. Partially rebuilt in 1733. NRHP. Hoyt-Barnum House: Stamford: 1699 Early Cape Cod Cottage, Stamford Historical Society museum. NRHP.
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