Doing Good by Stealth: The Philanthropy and Service of Annie Burr Lewis
Hill-Stead Museum
Architect and alumna of Miss Porter’s School Theodate Pope Riddle was a member of Annie Burr’s mother’s generation. At her death in 1946 she left her Farmington home and collection—Hill-Stead—to be a museum. By 1952 there was talk of closing it, and Annie Burr Lewis was among a group of prominent figures who testified in court to keep it open. She served on the museum’s board of trustees and represented them when called upon to host the visit of an important delegation of directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and international museums.
