With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
12 Blackman Road, Newtown
- Blackman Farmstead
- Robert Cottingham House & Studio
- Private Residence
- Robert Cottingham
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Robert Cottingham's Home and Studio
- Description of Significance/Historical Narrative
- The Blackman Farmstead is significant as an outstanding and substantially intact example of a subsistence farming complex representing the agricultural way of life in a 19th-century township of the Western Uplands. The farm has been home to painter Robert Cottingham since 1976.
- Date of Construction
- c. 1760
- Historic Designation(s)