.This building is located at 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Florence Griswold House
The house at 96 Lyme Street Old Lyme Connecticut was built for David Morley in 1817. The builder was Samuel Belcher. It is a two story Georgian style house on a 14 acre lot.


Art Community
In 1841, the house and lot were purchased for 3 thousand dollars by Captain Robert Griswold. He bought it for his wife Helene Powers.
Florence Griswold and her sisters and her mother converted their home into a school for girls in 1878. This school closed 14 years later due to competition from other areas schools.
In 1890, the house was converted into a boarding house for summer vacationers. One of the boarders in in 1899 was landscaper painter Henry Ward Ranger. He was able to bring several other painters to.the Griswold house to establish the old Lyme Art Colony. Some.of the artists were Lewis Cohen, Henry Rankin Poore, Lewis Paul Dresser and William Henry Howe.




























