Connecticut

Bush-Holley Historic Site in Cos Cob, CT

Overlooking historic Cos Cob Harbor in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Bush-Holley Historic Site consists of four buildings with historic landscape and grounds restored circa 1900. Once home to the Cos Cob Art Colony, today’s Bush-Holley House is a historic museum featuring two distinct time periods. The first spans the years 1790-1825, when the new nation transitioned from an agricultural economy to one that was based on the manufacturing of goods. The second period focuses on the turn of the twentieth century, when the Holley House functioned as a boarding house. During those years it provided a place for Cos Cob Art Colony artists to gather together and share ideas with each other, as well as with novelists and journalists who gathered at the [...]