Hill-Stead Museum in
Farmington displays etchings and paintings by Impressionists Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and James McNeill Whistler; Chinese porcelains of the Ming and Chang dynasties and other art objects.
Set on 150 acres, which includes a sunken garden designed by Beatrix Farrand and the Colonial revival house, designed and built in 1901 by Theodate Pope, one of the first female architects in the country.