Welcome to the Cornish Colony Museum!
The Cornish Colony Museum is the only museum dedicated to exhibiting and teaching about the more than 200 members of the Cornish Colony.
Everett Shinn, The Performer
Museum Collection
The Cornish Colony was a community of artists and creative individuals who lived and worked in the Connecticut River Valley between 1885 and 1925. These talented people made the Cornish area - including Cornish and Plainfield, New Hampshire, and Windsor, Vermont - a summer destination for authors, artists, composers, performers, architects, designers, politicians and political activists for nearly 50 years.
The Cornish Colony included famous performers like Ethel Barrymore and Isadora Duncan, politicians like President Woodrow Wilson and Justice Learned Hand, artists like Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Maxfield Parrish, Willard Metcalf, and Marguerite and William Zorach, writers like Percy MacKaye, Winston Churchill, Louise Saunders, and Witter Bynner, and musicians like Louise Homer, Walter Damrosch, and Arthur Whiting.
The Cornish Colony declined after World War I, but the Cornish area has continued to be an artistic center for visiting artists as well as local individuals. Author J.D. Salinger and artists George Tooker, Gary Milek, Jane R. Ashley and Lawrence J. Nowlan are just a few of the many creative individuals who have called the Cornish Colony area home over the last 50 years.
Located in the historic Old Windsor Fire Station
147 Main St., Windsor, VT.
(802) 674-6008
Summer Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday
11:00am to 5:00pm