Unique Experiences

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Enjoy a private tour of the Glebe House Museum & Gertrude Jekyll Garden, given by Museum Director LoriAnn Witte, accommodating up to 10 guests. This is a perfect tour for the late Spring, when the garden comes into bloom. Set in the picturesque Litchfield Hills in historic Woodbury's village center, the Glebe House is one of the earliest historic house museums in the nation. Its architecture, outstanding regional furniture collection and Gertrude Jekyll Garden combine to create one of the most authentic house museums in the region. The House The Glebe House, built about 1740, is celebrating its 90th year in operation in 2015 as an historic house museum and garden. It was the home of Rev. John Rutgers Marshall, his wife Sarah, nine children and three slaves from 1771 to 1786 and is furnished with period furniture including a wonderful collection of furniture made in Woodbury during the 18th century. The Garden In 1926, the famed English horticultural designer and writer Gertrude Jekyll was commissioned by board member Annie Burr Jennings (Colonial Dame, heiress to the Standard Oil fortune, living in Fairfield, Connecticut, Connecticut Trustee at Mount Vernon) to create an "old fashioned" garden to enhance the newly created museum. Miss Jekyll (pronounced jeek uhl) had a profound influence on modern garden design and is widely considered the greatest gardener of the 20th century. Although a small garden, when compared with the some 400 more elaborate designs she completed in England and on the continent, the Gertrude Jekyll Garden includes 600 feet of classic English style mixed border and foundation plantings, a planted stone terrace, and an intimate rose allee. For reasons unknown today, the garden Miss Jekyll planned was never fully installed in the 1920s and its very existence was forgotten. After the rediscovery of the plans in the late 1970s the project was begun in earnest and is now being completed according to the original plans.

Item Special Note

Tour available: Spring - Summer 2017. The tour may be scheduled at the convenience of the donor and successful bidder.

The successful bidder will receive a written confirmation and/or certificate of purchase.

Terms and Conditions:
* Certificate expires one year after date issued
* Certificate must be used on a single day only
* Certificate cannot be combined with any other certificate, gift cards, offers, or packages
* Certificate will not be replaced if lost or stolen
* Certificate has no cash value
* Certificate needs to be surrendered at the time of the visit