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Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
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Old Lyme became known as the most famous Impressionist colony in America, the "American Giverny." The Florence Griswold House (1817) is America’s Home of Impressionism and a National Historic Landmark. Artists such as Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Matilda Browne, and William Chadwick transformed the stately late Georgian Griswold House into the home of the Lyme Art Colony. Visitors to the museum see where and how these early 20th-century artists lived and worked. The Tourism Cares Worldwide Grant helped fund a geothermal heating and cooling system designed to stabilize fluctuations in relative humidity and temperature. At the time it was installed, the museum represented one of the few museums nationally to use this environmentally-friendly technology, serving as a national model for sustainable historic restoration. Additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities assisted in completing the project.
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