Weir Farm National Historic Site
Welcome to Weir Farm National Historic Site
In June of 1882, artist J. Alden Weir stepped off the train here in Branchville, Connecticut. Like you, he had come to explore this rural farm perched atop Nod Hill. During his short first visit,
Weir painted a small masterpiece, Spring Landscape, Branchville, which began an artistic legacy that would continue for generations. Over the next forty years, Weir and his artist friends would paint this landscape endlessly. After Weir, his daughter, painter Dorothy Weir and her husband, sculptor Mahonri Young continued to create here during the decades surrounding the Second World War. In 1957, Sperry and Doris Andrews moved into the farmhouse and over the course of several decades painted thousands of works at the farm. Today, Weir Farm National Historic Site is the country's only National Park Service site dedicated to American painting and one of the finest remaining landscapes of American art.
We hope your visit leaves you with a greater lovefor art and nature. All the information that you need to begin your discovery of Weir Farm National Historic Site is available on the map above and across the street inside, as well as on the porch, of the visitor center.
Marker is at the intersection of Nod Hill Road and Weir Farm Lane, on the right when traveling south on Nod Hill Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
