Join us for CT Historic Gardens Day! Free refreshments and garden tours all day. Join us at 10 am for Yoga in Bloom with Soulshine Yoga, 1 pm to hear from WDS Head Gardener Pete Winne, and enjoy reduced admission for our two new exhibitions and three historic house tours. Get a free gift when you get signatures from three participating sites on your CT Garden Days passport.
Get ready to rock this summer at WDS! Join us for an electrifying evening on the lawn, featuring the unforgettable sounds of Locomotion.
Start your Sunday off with florals, flavor, and flair.Join our Head Gardener Peter Winne for an intimate tour of our colonial revival gardens, followed by “high tea” in the garden.
Watch master craftsmen restore 18th-century treasures every Thursday at 2 PM, from rebuilding historic looms to replacing the cedar-shake roof on our 1752 Joseph Webb House. Chat with skilled artisans like Mount Vernon's master carpenter Nathanial Ulfers as they demonstrate traditional trades that built America.
Start your Sunday off with florals, flavor, and flair.Join our Head Gardener Peter Winne for an intimate tour of our colonial revival gardens, followed by “high tea” in the garden.
Bluegrass Concert & Square Dance. Join us July 25 at 6 pm for a lively evening of Americana featuring the talented bluegrass band Audrey Mae, plus genuine square dancing with caller Liz Slade in the historic Webb Barn.
Experience the dedication and artistry that preservation requires, and discover why these traditional trades remain essential to protecting our architectural heritage. Watch skilled artisans demonstrate timber framing, roofing techniques, and master carpentry as they work on our own preservation projects, including the major roof replacement currently underway on the historic Webb House. Experience the artistry of women's traditional work through textile demonstrations, weaving, and historic loom operations. Learn the meticulous craft of paint stripping and restoration that reveals centuries of hidden history.
Join author and historian Briann Greenfield for an engaging discussion about Connecticut antiques and the dedicated collectors who preserved these historical treasures. Discover the fascinating stories of how these valuable pieces traveled between collectors over the past century.
Start your Sunday off with florals, flavor, and flair.Join our Head Gardener Peter Winne for an intimate tour of our colonial revival gardens, followed by “high tea” in the garden.
Join evidential medium Scott Allan in the Webb Barn to look through the veil and receive messages from the other side. Evening includes book signing, live medium demonstrations, and a VIP experience.
Join us one Saturday a month at 10 am to awaken your creativity and get you moving. Each month, a choreographer from the Hartford Dance Collective will lead a free movement class designed to build curiosity, strength, range of motion and confidence in your own dance movement. Classes include warm-ups, exercises in mobility, and dynamic choreography phrasework. If you’ve been dancing all your life, are a former dancer, or have never danced before, YOU ARE WELCOME HERE!
Embrace the season of transformation as the veil grows thin. Join us for an enchanting evening exploring the mysteries of the occult and the ancient art of tarot reading.