File:General view of Sunken Garden and Pope-Riddle house from southwest along carriage drive. - Hill-Stead, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, Hartford County, CT HABS CT-472-10.tif
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General view of Sunken Garden and Pope-Riddle house from southwest along carriage drive. - Hill-Stead, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, Hartford County, CT | |||||
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Rosenthal, James W. Related names:
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Title |
General view of Sunken Garden and Pope-Riddle house from southwest along carriage drive. - Hill-Stead, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, Hartford County, CT |
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Depicted place | Connecticut; Hartford County; Farmington | ||||
Date | 2006 | ||||
Dimensions | 5 x 7 in. | ||||
Current location |
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
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HABS CT-472-10 |
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This country estate was designed both as a functioning farm and as a potent social symbol. While rural in its setting and architectural vocabulary, Hill-Stead was closely integrated into the fabric of Farmington and was carefully crafted to accommodate the complex social patterns of the wealthy Pope family. The Colonial Revival mansion sits at the top of a hill over-looking the village of Farmington, the Farmington Valley and the Talcott Mountain Range. Its long, winding entrance drive creates a controlled, formal carriage approach to the mansion, while a grassy path rising up the slope from High Street to the front door of the house more directly links the estate on the hill to the town below. Originally boasting a six-hole golf grounds, tennis courts, a large greenhouse, formal sunken garden, wild garden, and wood-land trails, Hill-Stead was a completely-outfitted ferme ornée, with all the social and practical benefits of the nearby village of Farmington. Through its evocation of a vernacular farm complex, Hill-Stead also participates in the period search for national architectural authenticity, a common role of the Colonial Revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite formal elements of the façades, the house has an over-all irregular and sprawling massing evocative of an early nineteenth-century New England farm complex, with a carriage house and barn attached at the rear. While the structure was designed and completed as a cohesive unit, its form deliberately gives the appearance of accretion with the passage of time. Theodate Pope was particularly interested in contemporary trends of designing in an “old” style. Her work on her own house, an eighteenth-century saltbox she called the O’Rourkery, was a life-long exercise in modern renovation in old style. McKim, Mead & White were leaders in the rediscovery of Colonial-era architecture, and contributed integrally in the success of this “old-style” conceit at Hill-Stead. Both the architects and the clients of Hill-Stead were interested in creating a building that symbolized a more innocent rural national past through its entirely modern fabric. While the form of the house pays homage to vernacular structures, it is in reality the product of sophisticated design and modern construction ingenuity. In the same way, the fields, woodlands and watercourses on the site have a naturalistic form but were the product of careful design and planning.
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0689.photos.222687p | ||||
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Object location | 41° 43′ 10.99″ N, 72° 49′ 57″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 41.719720; -72.832500 |
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Camera model | 54H |
Author | Library of Congress |
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File change date and time | 11:49, 20 February 2008 |