bidwell house museum
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Tucked away in a small town in the Berkshires, the museum is worth a visit for its collections and beautiful setting. There are many special programs in the season as well as guided tours. In addition to the surrounding perennial and vegetable gardens, there are extensive walking trails on the almost 200 acre property. The nearby small town of Monterey has a general store with a cafe.
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Bidwell House, perched high on a hill in Monterey MA, was once the heart of a community on the turnpike from Boston to Albany. Today, it stands alone, beautifully and lovingly restored to its 18th-century habit and well-maintained by a private foundation. For those of us who grew up in an 18th-century house, it's like going home. A wealth of information is forthcoming from the well-informed docents, including high-school interns in the summer months. We think a tour of the cellar is a highlight of a visit to Bidwell, as it gives a sense of the massive masonry required to support what looks like a modest-sized house of that period. Lovely well-cared-for gardens display plants -- herbs, flowers, vegetables -- period to the house. And the drive there takes you through a beautiful part of the Berkshires.
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We greatly enjoyed our visit to the Bidwell home. The guides were enthusiastic and well informed on the history of the home, it's inhabitants and the area. There are many unusual artifacts at the home, and it's setting and gardens are worth the drive up into the pretty hills of that part of Massachusetts.
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We visited the Bidwell House Museum on Thursday, 10/9/2014, for an afternoon tour. The museum docent was very knowledgeable. And the house was a great example of colonial home life. The small entrance fee was very reasonable. In, addition to the tours, which take about an hour, there were various walking trails on the 192 acres of real estate that visitors could also access. May not be handicapped accessible due to the stairs and steps. Would need to confirm that prior to arrival. Be sure to use GPS and the directions on the website, as it is out in the country and difficult to find otherwise.
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The house is beautifully restored, and the material collection is amazing. Every room offered an interesting story and time-period authentic furnishings. The grounds have as much history as the house itself. The guide was enthusiastic and knowledgeable. I highly recommend finding this gem nestled in the woods of Monterey!
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We visited Bidwell House early September 2014 on our trip through the New-England States. When we arrived we saw that the Museum was not open that day so we admired the gardens when a lady arrived in her car and asked us where we came from. We told her we were from Great Britain. And soon we found that the museum was opened for us and we had a lovely tour of the house and grounds because "everybody comes here for a reason". We remember Bidwell House as truly impressive and certainly unforgettable.
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I loved everything about my visit to the Bidwell House. The drive back to the House is lovely, the setting beautiful, the docents knowledgeable and charming, and the tour itself detailed and informative. I learned quite a bit about the House's history and past owners, as well as about the history of the area in which the House stands. I visited on a bright, sunny, hot July day, and my self-guided tour of the grounds was also terrific: the grounds themselves were lovely, and there were a couple of shady spots for perching! I plan to return during my next stay in the Berkshires, and recommend a visit to anyone with an interest in American/local history, historic houses, American decorative arts, etc.
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We like to visit venues close to home. Often we first visit when house guests are interested in the region: the 4-state region; Berkshire county and Monterey and the environs. So going on our own preempted the deferral; we wished to explore now. We set off on a winter day: sunny, little wind, full snow cover and the dog. We drove to the Bidwell house at the end of Art School Road off of Tyringham Road in Monterey. The main parking field was not plowed so we parked off the road in a small plowed neck of the main area. Our snow shoes were very helpful navigating the steep hill from there up toward the house and the beginning of Royal Hemlock Road. This was a former center of Monterey and adjacent to the Hartford Albany Turnpike. There is an information board at the start of RH Rd. Once there is is a gentle, undulating road in the deep woods. In fact as you near the end of RH Rd you are almost at the border of Tyringham. We passed a carin designating a former sap house (if I recall correctly). There are intermittant semi-open areas that have been moderately logged by way of enhancing the land and trees. This ongoing forestry of the +200 acres is also described at the trail-head information board. We had a lovely time; were outside on a winter day; and learned a bit more about the Bidwell House and our neighborhood. The museum is seasonal and closed in the winter but very worthy of a return visit during its season. Recommended.
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This is an interesting old house built by Rev. Bidwell way back in the mid seventeen hundreds. It is spacious with much higher ceilings than is typical of the day. It has been faithfully restored and furnished with furniture selected for the time. One amazing thing we found out in the interesting tour was that Rev. Bidwell kept a complete detailed inventory of the contents of the house which was used to furnish the house. Very few historic houses have such a guide. The tour guide was knowledgeabe and it is well worth spending an hour or two at the Bidwell house. The four of us were the only ones on the tour, which is scheduled every hour on the hour. The house is quite a way from the main highway at the end of the side road.
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The Bidwell House was well worth the visit. Our guide made the visit, she inserted so many interesting facts. The house is beautiful and the grounds feel so authentic to the time. We loved it and still talk about the visit. Geri Cyr