Hill-Stead Museum

Hill-Stead Museum Hill-Stead Museum is a historically-significant home filled with art and antiques. Explore our grounds and Impressionist collection. Pope.
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Hill-Stead is noted for its 1901 33,000-square-foot house filled with art and antiques. Pioneering female architect Theodate Pope Riddle designed the grand house, set on 152 hilltop acres, to showcase the Impressionist masterpieces amassed by her father, Cleveland iron industrialist Alfred A. Hill-Stead is one of the nation’s few remaining representations of early-20th-century Country Place Estate

s. Collections include original furnishings, paintings by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, James M. Whistler and Mary Cassatt, as well as numerous works on paper and Japanese woodblock prints. Stately trees, seasonal gardens, meadows, over three miles of stone walls and blazed hiking trails accent the grounds. A centerpiece of the property is the circa 1920 sunken garden designed by Beatrix Farrand, today the site of the renowned Sunken Garden Poetry Festival. Hill-Stead Grounds are open from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm. For tour and program information, visit www.hillstead.org or call 860.677.4787.

Address

35 Mountain Road
Farmington, CT
06032

Opening Hours

Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+18606774787

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