Guided & self-guided tours of Linden Place Mansion are given May through October and during the month of December, Tuesday – Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and Sundays from 12 noon until 4 p.m. Tours by appointment are available November and January through April.
Tour highlights include tales of DeWolf family exploits, from their privateering and slave trading to their financial ruin and triumphant return to prosperity during Victorian times. Docents introduce visitors to family members Pomeroy Colt, founder of United States Rubber, now Uniroyal, his mother Theodora DeWolf Colt, who as Madam Colt ran Bristol Society from Linden Place as if she was Queen Victoria and the great actress Ethel Barrymore who married in to this most prominent of American families. At the tour’s end, visitors are welcome to stroll the sculpture-filled gardens where they will find Greek bronzes and an18th Century gazebo.
one of several mirrored bathrooms inside Linden Place
Linden Place Mansion
Second floor fanlight
The dining room of Linden Place Mansion
18th century gazebo on the Linden Place grounds
Rear carriage circle of Linden Place Mansion
one of many french sculptures to grace the gardens
Actress, Ethel Barrymore's bedroom at Linden Place
four-story spiral staircase
the nursery
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