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Wee Faerie Village architects



View photos of Faerie Architects in the studios hard at work designing their faerie's enchanted homes! Much thanks to Rick Scanlan for his time and talent.

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Read what the Faeries have to say about their homes and artists.

List of Wee Faerie Village Site Names, Dwelling Architects and links to their Historic Lyme Art Colony Artists

Riverview at Chadwick Corners
Created by Mary Ann Besier (Old Lyme), Graphic Designer
Home of Portia, the faerie muse to historic artist William Chadwick (1879-1962)

The Cherry Orchard
Created by Sue Chism (Old Lyme), Sculptor
Studio of the faerie muse to historic artist Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955)

Hopscotch Pine Island
Created by Christopher Eaves (Brooklyn, NY), Actor, Director, and Arts Educator
Home of the faerie muse to historic artist Frank Bicknell (1866-1943)

The Ivy Palisades
Created by Chad Floyd (Old Lyme), Architect and Mary-Lynn Radych (Centerbrook), Architect
Home of Cornice, the faerie muse to historic artist William Robinson (1861-1945)

Among the Blooms
Created by Stephen and Carol Huber (Old Saybrook), Girlhood Embroidery Dealers
Home of Gloam de Crépescule, faerie muse in charge of Tonalist colors

Far Far Far Away
Created by Mahady Makrianes and Susan Zirlen, Faerie Aficionados (Chester)
Home of Whisp, the faerie muse to historic artist Lewis Cohen (1857-1915)

Wishing You Well Wishing Well
Created by Maureen McCabe (Quaker Hill), Mixed Media Artist and Professor of Studio Art
Home of Undine, the faerie muse to historic artists Harry Hoffman (1871-1964) & Beatrice Hoffman

Corinthian Heights
Created by the Museum Docents (Jenny Eio, Laura Mooney, Joan Squeglia, Kathy Valliere, and Eileen Zelken)
Home of Harpa, the faerie muse to historic artist Alphonse Jongers (1872-1945)

Red Red Rosie Lane
Created by the Museum’s Garden Gang (DeeDee Charnock, Kathy Green, Bobbi Padgett, Maggie Phillips, Gay Thorn, and Sheila Wertheimer)
Home of Rose Petal the faerie muse to historic figure
Captain Robert Griswold, Miss Florence’s Father (d. 1882)

Under Black Walnut
Created by Sandy Garvin (Old Lyme), Artist
Home of Violette, the faerie muse to historic artist Frank Vincent DuMond (1865-1951)

Betwixt the Barns
Created by Matt Greene (Lisbon), Museum Staff and Jennifer Johnson (Lisbon), Jewelry Designer
Home of Flock, the faerie muse to historic artist Carleton Wiggins (1848-1932)

Betwixt the Brambles
Created by Mark Guiliano (Deep River), Exhibition Designer, Wadsworth Atheneum
Home of the faerie muse to historic artist Bruce Crane (1857-1937)

Twin Trees
Created by John Himmelman (Killingworth), Author & Illustrator
Home of Moo, the faerie muse to historic artist William Henry Howe (1846-1929)

Water Water Everywhere
Created by Tracy Kane, Author and Illustrator
Home of Luna, the faerie muse to historic artist Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

Vegetable Valley
Created by Lisa Kenyon (Pawcatuck), Librarian
Home of Iris Holstein, the faerie muse to historic artist Matilda Browne (1869-1947)

In the Deep Dark Forest of One Tree
Created by Jean Callan King (East Haddam) and Georgann Ritter (Chester), Interior Decorators
Home of the faerie muse to historic artist Henry Ward Ranger (1858-1916)

Flutterby Fields
Created by Craig Nelson (Gales Ferry), Woodworker
Garage of the the faerie muse to historic artist Edward Rook (1870-1960)

Elephant Tree Lagoon
Created by Robb Nestor and Bill Reynolds (Hadlyme), Landscape Designers
Home of the faerie muse to historic artist Louis Paul Dessar (1867-1952)

Tippy Tippy Top of the Underground Mountain
Created by the Judy Preston, Ecologist (Old Saybrook)
Home of the faerie muse to historic artist Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925)

Barnstable Bluffs
Created by Keith Ragone (Newfield, NJ), Exhibition Designer
Home of Faerieman, the faerie muse to historic figure James Kent, Miss Florence’s handyman

Winter Garden
Created by David D.J. Rau (Chester), Museum Educator
Home of N., the faerie muse to historic artist Arthur Heming (1870-1940)

Babbling Brookside
Created by Julie Solz (Amherst, NH), Museum Worker, Historic New England
Home of Finn (short for Finia), the faerie muse to historic artist Walter Griffin (1861-1935)

Beneath the Harp
Created by Christopher Steiner (Old Lyme), College Professor
Home of Lyra, the faerie muse to historic figure Miss Florence Griswold (1850-1937)

Charter Oak Estates
Created by Barbara Stevens (Old Lyme) and Barbara O’Connell (Old Lyme), Faerie Aficionados
Home of Acorn, the faerie muse to historic artist Allen Butler Talcott (1867-1908)

Along the Rocky Road
Created by Billie Tannen and Robert Nielsen (Brooklyn, NY), Designers and Artists, Billie Beads
Home of Roygbiv, faerie muse in charge of Impressionist colors

Marshymellows
Created by Bill Vollers (Chester), Graphic Designer & Artist
Home of Footsie, the faerie muse to historic artist Will Howe Foote (1874-1965)

The Poore House
Created by Renée Wilson (Old Lyme), Designer & Miniature House Maker
Home of Foxie, the faerie muse to historic artist Henry Rankin Poore (1859-1940)