A Man of Parts: The house and collection built by the visionary director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Elizabeth Pochoda
All photographs courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Archives, Hartford, Connecticut.
You can find it on Wikipedia, read about it at on the website connecticuthistory.org, see it in the dizzy video
Hidden in Plain Sight, and dip into any number of excited online accounts of the 1930 Chick Austin House in Hartford, Connecticut. It’s a place that seems to get rediscovered nearly every other day by people entranced by its architectural sleight of hand. But until it reopens for tours, the Chick Austin House is best encountered on the Wadsworth Atheneum’s website, where images of its meticulous restoration by the museum have been pulled from Eugene Gaddis’s 2007 book