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.
87 Mountain Road, West Hartford
- Old West School
- West Hartford Art League
- Rebecca Field (Jones)
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The Old West School was the first space in which the newly formed West Hartford Art League offered classes in 1934.
- Walter O. R. Korder
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Korder was a long-time teacher at the West Hartford Art League.
- Description of Significance/Historical Narrative
- Old West School was built of brick because of educator and CT legislator Henry Barnard’s campaign for safer school buildings, and is the oldest extant school building in West Hartford. Now owned by the West Hartford Art League Inc.
- Date of Construction
- 1878
- Historic Designation(s)
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- Historic Resource Inventory
- Local Historic District
- State Register District