Hill-Stead Museum

The Hill - Stead Museum, often just called Hill - Stead, is built in the style of Colonial Revival building in Farmington, Connecticut.

Today, included in the list of National Historic Landmarks in 1991 building serves as an art museum.

History

The building was designed on behalf of her father Alfred Atmore Pope Theo Date Pope Riddle, before the well-known architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White was used to realize the plans. The construction period lasted from 1898 for three years and the building was completed in 1901.

After the death of their parents Theo Date inherited the house and managed their estates. Even buildings that were on the grounds of the family, then passed into the possession of Theo Date.

Current time

Today, around 600 square meters of land belonging to the grounds of the museum, most of which were designed by Warren H. Manning. 19 of the 36 rooms in the building are open to visitors.

Inside the premises to paintings by Eugène Carrière, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and James McNeill Whistler can visit.

Also to be found at the museum, a pressure and three engravings of Albrecht Dürer, Japanese woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige and Kitagawa Utamaro, eight bronze sculptures by Antoine- Louis Barye, over 13,000 postcards and letters and 2,500 photos in the possession of the Museum.