Alden Weir. I visited the park during my two-year road trip as a nomad. The Weir Farm National Historic Site includes 71 landscaped acres filled with the Weir home, other houses, barns ...

Weir Farm National Historic Site CT – J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), noted American impressionist painter, purchased this farm on Nob Hill in Branchville CT in 1882, for $10 and a painting! It is the only ...

Today, this serene pastoral setting in southeastern Connecticut, an hour’s drive from Manhattan, is home to the only park unit devoted to American painting—the 60-acre Weir Farm National Historic Site ...