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Chesterwood, A Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
413-298-3579
Chesterwood.org
Chesterwood, a National Trust Historic Site, is the country home, studio and gardens of America’s foremost sculptor of public monuments, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), creator of the Minute Man and Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial. Situated on 122 acres in the idyllic hamlet of Glendale near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the property and its buildings were donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation by French’s only child, Margaret French Cresson (1889-1973).
Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm
Rochester Hills, Michigan
248-656-4663
www.rochesterhills.org/museum
The Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm is a sixteen acre site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Museum interprets the lives of five generations of the Taylor-Van Hoosen families, with special focus on Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen and Dr. Sarah Van Hoosen Jones. The Museum also interprets the rich history of the Greater Rochester Community settled in 1817.
Tweed Museum of Art
Duluth, Minnesota
218-726-8222
www.d.umn.edu/tma
Tweed Museum of Art is a mid-sized regional art museum with a small, talented and dedicated staff. Museum programming features an ongoing schedule of exhibitions throughout its nine galleries, and an extensive array of life-long learning and community outreach programs. With a permanent collection of over 10,000 art objects representing a range of cultures and periods of art history, the Tweed Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth is a major cultural and educational resource for the Upper Midwest.