The Home of the Legendary A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr.
The Austin House, located at 130 Scarborough Street in Hartford, is a National Historic Landmark and the former home of A. Everett "Chick" Austin, Jr., the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's innovative director from 1927 to 1944. It is appointed with unique examples of eighteenth and twentieth century European furniture and decorative arts. In the 1930s it was a gathering place for leaders of the international art world, including Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder, Gertrude Stein, George Balanchine, Le Corbusier, Cecil Beaton, Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Aaron Copland, and Virgil Thomson.
The director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art has graciously agreed to invite all of those who make a contribution to the Sarah Goodwin Austin Memorial Fund to visit the home by appointment.
For further information, please call (860) 838-4049.
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