About Us:
? Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut, boasts renowned French Impressionist masterpieces-four by Claude Monet, three by Edgar Degas-and notable works by Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt and James McNeill Whistler, among others. Assembled by Cleveland iron industrialist Alfred Atmore Pope (1842-1913), this unparalleled art collection remains on display in situ, the only surviving and intact Impressionist painting collection amassed by an American patron. Hill-Stead constitutes an ongoing blockbuster exhibition, with its 152-acre pastoral site and continuous display of art and furnishings in their original domestic setting.
? The 1901 country home and farmstead, characterized by 33,000 square feet, 36 rooms, white clapboard exterior with Mount Vernon veranda, is considered "perhaps the finest Colonial Revival house and museum in the United States." Hill-Stead is the first project of Theodate Pope Riddle (1867-1946), sixth registered female architect in Connecticut, early proponent of historic preservation, social progressive and caretaker of the family art collection. Theodate broke into architecture at a time when the field was male dominated. For Hill-Stead, she partnered with McKim, Mead & White.
? The collections also include 250 prints and photographs, 290 ceramics, 400 pieces of furniture, 3,300 books and 16,000+ archival documents. The property features a 150-person capacity Arts and Crafts theater, stone garages, sunken garden designed by Beatrix Farrand (American, 1871-1957), woodland trails, pond and dairy farm complex.
? The museum was established in 1946 per Theodate Pope Riddle's Last Will and Testament, as a memorial to her parents and cultural resource for the public to be enjoyed in perpetuity.
Where we're located:
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road
Farmington, CT 06032