Lime Rock, Connecticut
Lime Rock Historic District | |
Location | Roughly White Hollow, Elm, Lime Rock, Norton Hill and Furnace Rds., Salisbury, Connecticut |
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Coordinates | 41°56′4″N 73°23′27″W / 41.93444°N 73.39083°W |
Area | 120 acres (49 ha) |
Architect | Upjohn, Richard |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Stick/Eastlake, Queen Anne |
NRHP reference No. | 84001064 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 05, 1984 |
Lime Rock is a village and
History
Formerly known as "The Hollow",
By 1923, Barnum and Richardson had closed its eastern works, which went bankrupt. Initially the village was largely abandoned,[3] but by 1927 it had become the home of an artist colony, the Lime Rock Artists Association, which hosted major exhibits in the village in each of the nine years from 1927 through 1935.[4] The original historic village is still largely intact.[3]
In 1946, Alfred Korzybski moved the Institute of General Semantics from Chicago to the former Richardson mansion in Lime Rock where he directed it until his death in 1950. The Institute remained in Lime Rock until 1981 when it moved elsewhere.[5]
Today Lime Rock is best known as the location of the
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ The Connecticut Guide (1935) Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b What's so special about Lime Rock? Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine, Between the Lakes Group website, accessed August 11, 2009
- ^ Art at Trinity Lime Rock Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ History of the Institute[permanent dead link], Institute of General Semantics website