Winter Hours In Effect For Weir Farm Visitors' Center
Winter Hours In Effect For Weir Farm Visitorsâ Center
WILTON â Weir Farm National Historic Site has returned to its visitor center hours and tour schedule for the winter and early spring off-season.
Through April 30, the Visitor Center will be open Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. Ranger-guided tours will be offered Thursday through Sunday at 11 am and 2 pm during the months of November, December, March, and April. In January and February, tours will be offered on Saturday and Sunday at 11 am and 2 pm. All tours are landscape and studio tours except for the 11 am Sunday stone wall tour.
Administrative offices of the National Park Service and Weir Farm Art Center will be open 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. The current exhibition in the visitor center gallery, âWatercolors by Truman Seymour,â will remain on display through March 3.
The grounds and parking lot of Weir Farm National Historic Site are open to the public year round from dawn to dusk. Winter use includes walking, hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing (although there are no groomed trails), bird watching, photography, and as always, painting and sketching. Maps and brochures are available on the porch of the Visitor Center.
The main entrance to Weir Farm National Historic Site is at 735 Nod Hill Road in Wilton; the property itself straddles Ridgefield and Wilton.
Weir Farm National Historic Site is the only national park unit 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, outbuildings, and landscape constitute the finest remaining landscape of American Impressionism.
For additional information about Weir Farm National Historic Site, call 203-834-1896 or visit www.nps.gov/wefa. For information about the programs operated by the Weir Farm Art Center, such as the 2008 Art Explorer Program, Lectures, and the Artist-in-Residence Program, call 203-761-9945 or visit WeirFarmArtCenter.org.