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Article: Room to grow.
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- The Boston Herald
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- August 17, 1997
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Hill-Stead Museum turns outdoor garden space into extension of home
At the turn of the century, when Theodate Pope Riddle designed a retirement home for her art-collecting parents, she determined that an outdoor garden "room" would be a natural extension of a house filled with impressionist art.
Today the Farmington, Conn., colonial revival house that Alfred and Ada Pope once called home is known as the Hill-Stead Museum. The sunken garden planted beside the house serves as a complementary living space - a bower of flowers that reflect in living color the hues used by great artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, whose works hang on ...