Edna St. Vincent Millay House & Gardens (Steepletop) | |
 Front (south) elevation of main house, 2014 | |
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| Location | East Hill Road, Austerlitz, NY |
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| Nearest city | Pittsfield, MA |
| Coordinates | 42°19′17.30″N 73°26′39.15″W / 42.3214722°N 73.4442083°W |
| Area | 500 acres (200 ha) |
| Built | c. 1870 |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000534 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | November 11, 1971[1] |
| Designated NHL | November 11, 1971[2] |
Steepletop, also known as the Edna St. Vincent Millay House, was the farmhouse home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain, in Austerlitz, New York, United States. Her former home and gardens are maintained by the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, a nonprofit organization that also holds the rights to the poet's intellectual property.[3] Steepletop was declared a National Historic Landmark on November 11, 1971.[2][4]
The Millay Colony for the Arts, founded by Norma Millay Ellis, sister of the poet and heir to her estate, is located on an adjacent plot of land. In 1973, it was established as a separate nonprofit organization from the Edna St. Vincent Millay society (aka, "Millay Society").
The name Steepletop comes from a pink, conical wildflower that grows there known as Steeplebush or Spiraea tomentosa.[5] The Society opened the house for tours in 2010.[6]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "Edna St. Vincent Millay House & Gardens (Steepletop)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 18, 2007.
- ^ Edna St. Vincent Millay Society
- ^ Edmund Preston (June 23, 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Steepletop" (pdf). United States Department of the Interior National Park Service. National Park Service. and Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 1971. (3.92 MB)
- ^ "Norma Millay Ellis, 92; Arts Colony Founder", The New York Times, 16 May 1986.
- ^ "Millay's Home Opens to Public". Times-Union. 2010. Retrieved September 1, 2011.