Steepletop

Infobox nrhp2
name = Edna St. Vincent Millay House & Gardens (Steepletop)
nrhp_type = nhl
nhl = yes
locmapin = New York


caption = Front (south) elevation of main house, 2008
location = East Hill Road, Austerlitz, NY
nearest_city = Albany, New York
lat_degrees = 42 | lat_minutes = 19 | lat_seconds = 13 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 26 | long_seconds = 52 | long_direction = W
built = c. 1870
architect =
architecture =
designated_nhl= November 11, 1971cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1121&ResourceType=Building
title=Edna St. Vincent Millay House & Gardens (Steepletop)|date=2007-09-18|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 11, 1971cite 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]
area = 500 acres
refnum = 71000534

Steepletop, or Edna St. Vincent Millay House was the farmhouse home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950, and Eugene Jan Boissevain, in Austerlitz, New York. Edna St. Vincent Millay's former home and gardens are maintained by the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on November 11, 1971.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/71000534.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Steepletop] |327 KB|author=Edmund Preston|date=June 23, 1971|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/71000534.pdf Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 1971.] |3.92 MB] The Millay Colony for the Arts is also located at Steepletop. The Colony was founded in 1973 by Norma Millay Ellis, sister of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. [Millay Colony for the Arts, about, tour. 30 June 2008. ] Steepletop is named after a pink, conical wildflower that grows there. ["Norma Millay Ellis, 92; Arts Colony Founder", "The New York Times", 16 May 1986.]

It is currently not open to the public, although a trail to Millay's grave is.

References

External links

* [http://www.millaysociety.org/millaysteepletop.htm Official Site]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/ny19.htm Places Where Women Made History: Steepletop, at the National Park Service]
* [http://www.millaycolony.org/ Millay Colony for the Arts]