Open House Events Will Offer Unprecedented

Public Access To The Historic Weir House

WILTON — Weir Farm National Historic Site will offer an unprecedented opportunity for the public to explore the historic Weir House.

For three consecutive weekends this fall — September 29-30, October 6-7 and October 13-14 — the house will be open from 1 to 4 pm for visitors to the site. Never before open to the public in this manner, this will be the best opportunity for visitors to see the house before a significant restoration process begins in 2008.  Once restored, visitors will be invited back to see first hand the dramatic improvements that will have taken place during the rehabilitation of this historic home.

From 1882 through 2005, the Weir House at Weir Farm National Historic Site had been occupied as a private residence by three artists and their families: painter Julian Alden Weir, sculptor Mahonri Young and most recently painter C. Sperry Andrews.  For the first time in 125 years, visitors can see the interior of the structure that so many great artists considered home.

The Weir Farm National Historic Site Visitor Center is at 735 Nod Hill Road in Wilton; the property itself covers land in Wilton and Ridgefield. Weir Farm National Historic Site is the only national park in the country dedicated to an American painter. The site preserves the summer home and workplace of Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), a leading figure in American art and the development of American Impressionism.  The Weir House, Weir and Young studios, barns and outbuildings and landscape constitute the finest remaining landscape of American Impressionism.

For information, directions, and more about these open house weekends, call 203-834-1896 or visit www.nps.gov/wefa.