Estate Tour

Groups of 6 – 12 by reservation.
Offered June 1 – September 30.
$50 / person includes lunch.

Garden club members and lovers of art and the outdoors are invited to experience Hill-Stead in depth. During your three-hour experience, stroll the paths of the Beatrix Farrand-designed Sunken Garden, featuring 90 varieties of plants and perennials. View meadows, wetlands and woodlands while hearing about Theodate Pope Riddle’s design for Hill-Stead, which drew upon the English Landscape and Colonial Revival movements and included an experimental dairy farm, trail system and orchards. Tour the 33,000-square-foot 1901 Pope Riddle House, considered one the country’s finest examples of Colonial Revival domestic architecture. View renowned French Impressionist paintings, Japanese prints, decorative art, furniture and more, all exhibited in situ.

stotzs@hillstead.org