Life at Winterthur
Code: SL51801
Dates: April 14, 2023
Meets: 12 N to 2:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Location: Creutzburg Center
Course Fee: $49.00
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Take a behind the scenes look into Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur with its house, collections, gardens, estate outbuildings, and gentleman’s farm from the 1910s-50s. There is a special focus on entertaining and the social life of this great American estate. There are many rarely seen photographs from the Winterthur archives. Lunch is included.
Jeff Groff
Jeff Groff recently retired as Estate Historian at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. He also served as Director of Public Programs and Director of Interpretation. For sixteen years he was Executive Director of Wyck Historic House and Garden in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. He holds an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture of the University of Delaware. For over forty years he has studied and lectured on American country houses and gardens, particularly those of Philadelphia’s “Main Line” and surrounding areas, with an emphasis on country life and sports, and gentleman farming. He served as co-curator of Winterthur’s very successful exhibitions “Costumes of Downton Abbey” and “Costuming The Crown."N/A
