Cornish Art Colony

Attracted by the natural beauty of the area, about 100 artists, sculptors, writers, designers, and politicians lived there either full-time or during the summer months.

With views across the Connecticut River Valley to Mount Ascutney in Vermont, the bucolic scenery was considered to resemble that of an Italian landscape.

Beginning around 1885, Augustus attracted a summer colony of artists that grew into a single extended social network.

His house and gardens are now preserved as Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.

Windsor was the mailing address for the entire area and the arrival point of most of the colonists, who usually came from New York City by train.