Chesterwood (Massachusetts)

Daniel Chester French Home and Studio (Chesterwood)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Chesterwood
Nearest city	Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Area	122 acres
Built	1896
Architect	Henry Bacon, Daniel Chester French
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, other
Governing body	Private
NRHP Reference #	66000652
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966[1]
Designated NHLD	December 21, 1965[2]

Chesterwood was the summer estate and studio of American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In 1896 French purchased the former Marshall Warner farm. Each year, during the month of May, he left his permanent home and studio in New York for six months and moved with his family to Chesterwood, where he worked on over 200 public and private commissions.

The estate covers 122 acres (0.5 km²) of forest and field in the Taconic Mountains. Chesterwood is also located within the heart of the cultural region of the Berkshires. French's summer home includes a garden dating from the 1920s. His studio and barn contain sculptural studies for a number of his works, most notably:

• The Minute Man (1875), Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts
• The Continents (1906), United States Customs House, New York City
• Samuel F. Dupont Memorial (1921), the fountain at Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.
• Abraham Lincoln (1922) in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Chesterwood is located at 4 Williamsville Road in the Glendale neighborhood of Stockbridge. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965^[2][3] and is now a house museum of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, open for tours from late May through mid-October.

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  Studio and garden

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  Studio interior

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  Studio detail

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  Studio detail

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  View from house

See also

• Ventfort Hall
• The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts)
• Naumkeag
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkshire County, Massachusetts
• List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts

References

External links

• Chesterwood
• Chesterwood: The Workshop of an American Sculptor, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan

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Coordinates: 42°17′06.49″N 73°21′08.34″W / 42.2851361°N 73.3523167°W / 42.2851361; -73.3523167