William Cullen Bryant Homestead

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caption =The William Cullen Bryant Homestead
nearest_city= Cummington, Massachusetts
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 28
lat_seconds = 16.61
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 72
long_minutes = 56
long_seconds = 26
long_direction = W
locmapin = Massachusetts
area =188.57 acres
built =1799
architect= Unknown
architecture= Late Victorian
designated_nhl=December 29, 1962cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=63&ResourceType=Building
title=Bryant, William Cullen, Homestead |accessdate=2008-07-25|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=66000136 The William Cullen Bryant Homestead (155 acres) is the boyhood home and later summer residence of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), one of America's foremost poets and newspaper editors. It is located at 205 Bryant Road in Cummington, Massachusetts, currently operated by the non-profit Trustees of Reservations, and open to the public on weekends in summer and early fall. An admission fee is charged.

The Homestead was originally built in 1785. It was purchased by Bryant's grandfather, Ebenezer Snell, in 1789. The Homestead is set on a hillside above the Westfield River valley with views of the Hampshire Hills. Bryant bought back the family home in 1865 and renovated it extensively [Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. "The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States". New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 46. ISBN 0195031865] after it had been out of the family for about 30 years. The house is filled with Bryant's furnishings and mementoes. The site includes a stand of old-growth forest, a grove of 150-foot pine trees, and nearly 200-year-old sugar maple trees.

The Homestead was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000136.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: William Cullen Bryant Homestead] |32 KB|date=February 14, 1975 |author=Polly M. Rettig and J. Walter Coleman |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000136.pdf "Accompanying one photo, exterior, undated"] |32 KB]

References

ee also

*List of historic houses in Massachusetts

External links

* [http://www.thetrustees.org/pages/285_bryant_homestead.cfm The Trustees of Reservations: William Cullen Bryant Homestead]