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  • Saturday, October 7 – Sunday, November 5 – 2017 Junior League of Boston Designer Showhouse

    JL Boston is thrilled to announce the 2017 Designer Show House will take place at the 1853 William Flagg Homer House in Belmont, MA just steps away from picturesque downtown Belmont. The house, located at 661 Pleasant Street, is currently owned and preserved by the Belmont Woman’s Club, and was previously owned by William Flagg Homer and his wife Adeline Wellington, uncle and aunt of American landscape painter, Winslow Homer. The house, an architectural combination of both the Bracketed Italianate and French Mansard style, is set on a hill, with sweeping views of the Boston Skyline, and more than twenty soon to be renovated spaces.

    We have a number of exciting dates and events to share: October 7, 2017 – Opening Day: The Designer Show House will be open to the public from Saturday, October 7th through Sunday, November 5th, with special events during this time. Learn all about it at https://www.jlboston.org/2017-designer-show-house/
    Tickets are $30 for JL members, $40 for nonmembers. Hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 – 8, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 – 5. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

  • Friday, October 30, 6:30 – 9:00 pm – Spirit of Stonehurst

    Visit the hallowed halls of Stonehurst, an icon of American architecture, on Friday, October 30, from 6:30 – 9:00 pm.  Enjoy food, brew, and a bit of magic, too!

    Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and Frederick Law Olmsted, Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate, is the only museum devoted to these two pioneering figures in American architectural and landscape design history. At Stonehurst, these close friends and collaborators forged a uniquely American architecture by focusing on the intimate, almost seamless integration of the natural and man-made worlds. Richardson and Olmsted, like Winslow Homer, Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, were among the great artists of the post-Civil War era who asserted cultural independence from Europe by cultivating an aesthetic deeply rooted in the American landscape.

    The 109 acre Stonehurst estate is located nearby at 100 Robert Treat Paine Drive in Waltham, Massachusetts.  Tickets are $150 each, and sponsorship opportunities at higher levels are available. For more information, log on to www.stonehurstwaltham.org, or telephone 781-314-3290.  You may also make a check payable to Friends of Stonehurst and mail it to Stonehurst, 100 Robert Treat Paine Drive, Waltham, MA 02452.

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