Topsmead

Litchfield, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Topsmead State Forest in Litchfield, Connecticut preserves a Tudor Revival country estate house designed by Richard Henry Dana and completed in 1929. Built as the summer residence of Edith Morton Chase—daughter of Henry Sabin Chase, founder and first president of the Chase Brass and Copper Company—the house exemplifies the refined domestic architecture of the interwar period. Upon Chase's death in 1972, she bequeathed the house and its surrounding grounds to the state of Connecticut, which now operates the property as a historic house museum and state forest. The estate is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.