Chesterwood is the former summer estate and studio of the American sculptor Daniel Chester French, at 4 Williamsville Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. French bought the 150 acre farm from Marshall Warner in 1896, and the architect Henry Bacon designed both French's studio, built soon after, and the Georgian Revival house that replaced the farmhouse, completed in 1901; Bacon also designed a reception room fountain for the garden. The studio has doors thirty feet high on its west side and a peaked, north facing skylight, and outdoor tracks let French roll finished sculptures outside to view them in natural daylight. After French's death in 1931 the property passed to his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The National Trust for Historic Preservation now owns and operates most of the 129 acre estate as a museum and sculpture garden, open to visitors from late May through mid October. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Chesterwood was the summer estate and studio of American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) located at 4 Williamsville Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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Chesterwood is the former summer estate and studio of the American sculptor Daniel Chester French, at 4 Williamsville Road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. French bought the 150 acre farm from Marshall Warner in 1896, and the architect Henry Bacon designed both French's studio, built soon after, and the Georgian Revival house that replaced the farmhouse, completed in 1901; Bacon also designed a reception room fountain for the garden. The studio has doors thirty feet high on its west side and a peaked, north facing skylight, and outdoor tracks let French roll finished sculptures outside to view them in natural daylight. After French's death in 1931 the property passed to his daughter, Margaret French Cresson, and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The National Trust for Historic Preservation now owns and operates most of the 129 acre estate as a museum and sculpture garden, open to visitors from late May through mid October.
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completion_date/completed = 1896
In Style: Colonial Revival Architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Colonial Revival
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Wikidata item Q5093884, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Berkshire County, United States
Wikidata item Q5093884, property P131/P17 (location): Berkshire County, United States
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