Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park Cornish
— — a sculptor's garden the country kept.
Not only on a wall.
“Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park preserves the home, studios, and gardens of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the Irish-born American sculptor who shaped the bronze face of the Civil War and the Gilded Age. He moved to Cornish in 1885 and stayed until his death in 1907. The grounds carry full-scale casts of the Shaw Memorial and the Adams Memorial. From the studio, it reads as a working garden someone has just stepped out of.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park Cornish, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park sits on about 190 acres above the Connecticut River in Cornish, New Hampshire, across the water from Windsor, Vermont. The sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, born in Dublin in 1848, bought the property in 1885 and renamed the farmhouse Aspet after his father's birthplace in southern France. He worked here every summer and finally year-round until his death in 1907. The site joined the National Park Service in 1965 and was redesignated a National Historical Park in 2020. It is the only NPS unit in the state of New Hampshire.
The grounds carry full-scale recasts of Saint-Gaudens' major public commissions. The Shaw Memorial, original in bronze on Boston Common, stands as a plaster cast on the property; the Adams Memorial, original in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, sits in a hedged enclosure modeled on the original. The Farragut statue, completed in 1881, made his New York reputation; the gold-leaf double eagle coin he designed in 1907 carried his line into every American pocket of that decade. Aspet itself, the white farmhouse, dates to about 1817 and was renovated with help from Stanford White.
The park is open from late May through October, generally Memorial Day weekend to the last Sunday of the month. Hours are 9:00 to 4:30. A standard NPS entrance fee applies; America the Beautiful passes are honoured. The site is reached from NH Route 12A, about 12 miles north of Claremont and 9 miles south of Hanover. Sunday-afternoon concerts run through July and August in the Little Studio, a chamber-music tradition the park has kept since 1971. The grounds, picnic lawn, and forest trails are accessible without admission outside operating hours.