William Cullen Bryant Homestead

The William Cullen Bryant Homestead (155 acres) is the boyhood home and later summer residence of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), one of America's foremost poets and newspaper editors. It is located at 205 Bryant Road in Cummington, Massachusetts, currently operated by the non-profit Trustees of Reservations, and open to the public on weekends in summer and early fall. An admission fee is charged.

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William Cullen Bryant - Cummington, Massachusetts - Trustees of Reservations

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The Homestead was originally built in 1785, and is set on a hillside above the Westfield River valley with views of the Hampshire Hills. Bryant renovated it extensively after he bought it, and it is filled with Bryant's furnishings and momentoes. The site includes a stand of old-growth forest, a grove of 150-foot pine trees, and nearly 200-year-old sugar maple trees.

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