A great place to visit if you’re in the area. The house had 2 notable families, the Bushes(1750ish-1850ish) and the Holleys(1875ish-1950ish), and half the house is decorated for each family. Our docent-led tour had 7 people, including the 2 of us. Even though it was a weekday afternoon, someone brought along a 5 year old child, who was well-behaved but the docent did pay entirely too much attention to him and skewed the whole visit to appeal more to a child — not ideal, but not a deal-breaker. Our guide was knowledgeable but did seem a bit nervous. It was okay, though. The Greenwich Historical Society also has a lovely display in the next door house(where you go to buy your ticket — $ 10 for an adult). We spent an hour total between the Museum and the House. The House was about 10 or 15 minutes away by foot from Cos Cob station.
Brian C.
Évaluation du lieu : 4 Pinner, United Kingdom
We luckily arrived just as a tour was about to begin, so that was perfect. We were unaware that in order to see the Bush-Holley House itself that you needed to go on the tour so this all worked out nicely. The guide may have been a little nervous and perhaps pandered to the sole child in the group a bit but it quickly became endearing. It was an interesting way that the building was laid out — with half set up as it was during the period during the Bush occupancy and half during the Holley family. The Bushes are the earlier residents, and the story explains their slave ownership and initial rise and fall from grace. The Holleys were a later family and occupied the house up until the early 1950s. One thing I really liked was the layout of the paintings on the Holley side of the house as they were placed in conjunction to the locations they were painted of. So for example, a painting next to the fireplace was actually of the fireplace. It really made you get into the artists period under the Holleys quite well. I thoroughly enjoyed visiting the museum/house on my sole(and brief) trip to Connecticut.
