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| | Art/Museums: The Cos Cob Art Colony, Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore at the National Academy of Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In Cos Cob, she noted, the Holley House "provided an inspiring and affordable gathering place, allowing innovative, cosmopolitian artists to work within a traditional waterfront village
[that] was surrounded by a prosperous farm town undergoing rapid suburbanization." "The artists," she continued, "adopted a bohemian stance that differentiated them from the prosperous suburbanites. |
 | | Holley's wife, Josephine Lyon Holley had ancestors who settled in New England in 1632 and her brother, Hartford physician Irving W. Lyon was, according to Ms. |
 | | The Holleys went bankrupt in 1877, and had to pay rent to continue to live and operate the boardinghouse and by 1882, they "rented an old house on about three-quarters of an acre overlooking Cos Cob's small harbor" with only 14 rooms, of which about nine were used as bedrooms, according to Ms. |
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