Inside the Painstaking Restoration of America’s Most Historic Artists’ Retreat (Architectural Digest)
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“Following the successive deaths of all four of their children, aged from 12 days to 11 years old, between 1880 and 1890, financier Spencer and writer Katrina Trask in 1900 bequeathed the near entirety of their considerable fortune toward establishing an artists’ retreat on their rambling estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. “Since God in His infinite wisdom has seen fit to take all our children to a larger place,” Spencer Trask wrote, “we cannot believe it right that we should limit the possession of Yaddo to any one individual or family.”
To read more about the origin and history of the Yaddo artist retreat and the work and expansion recently undertaken as part of a $10 million restoration plan, look here.
