National Register of Historic Places

Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio

Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Listed
May 30, 2016
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
16000304

About this property

The Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio is a historic house museum and former art studio in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The house and studio were home to American Abstract Artists George L.K. Morris and Suzy Frelinghuysen. The studio was built in Bauhaus style in 1930 by Morris and his friend George Sanderson. The house was added in 1941, designed by John Butler Swann. The house and studio were entered onto the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The house contains furnishings and decorations unchanged since the couple's lifetime. The art collection includes cubist frescoes and paintings by Morris and Frelinghuysen, as well as works by Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Georges Braque, Joan Miró and Henri Matisse.

Location

92 Hawthorne St., 159 West St.
Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Categories

ARCHITECTUREART
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 30, 2016.

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Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

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