Save the Dates! Here are some of our editor’s favorite show houses and tours coming up in Connecticut and New York. Grab a friend, attend a tour (or all of them!) and get lots of ideas for your own home and garden projects. And you’ll be supporting some important causes while doing so.
Decorator Show Houses & Architecture Tours 2024
Hamptons Holiday House
Open to Public: August 11 – September 8, 2024
Holiday House is returning out east this summer with its 6th Hamptons Designer Showhouse. Secluded on over an acre within the private 23-acre community of Windy Hill Farm, this home was designed and crafted to perfection and offers views of the 100-year-old apple orchard over the broad lawn.
Approximately 20 of the industry’s top interior designers will transform this home to showcase cutting-edge decor and chic lifestyle concepts to be viewed by the general public, the design industry, and design enthusiasts all while raising critical funds for breast cancer research.
4 Windy Hill Lane
Bridgehampton, NY
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Rooms with a View 2024
Thursday, November 7th – Sunday, November 10th
Rooms with a View is a totally immersive, creative environment designed to inspire and delight. Each year, a group of talented designers transforms the church into spectacular design vignettes.
Southport Congregational Church
524 Pequot Avenue, Southport, CT
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The Glass House Tours
Through December 15th
The Glass House, built between 1949 and 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, is a National Trust Historic Site located in New Canaan, Connecticut. The pastoral 49-acre landscape comprises fourteen structures, including the Glass House (1949), and features a permanent collection of 20th-century painting and sculpture, along with temporary exhibitions. Tours of the site are available in April through December and advance reservations are recommended.
New Canaan, CT
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Photo by Michael Biondo.
Grace Farms Tours
Ongoing
In early 2010, Grace Farms Foundation selected SANAA, a Tokyo-based architectural firm, to execute its vision for a vibrant place and multi-purpose building where visitors could experience nature, encounter the arts, pursue justice, foster community, and explore faith. SANAA’s design for the facility, known as the River building, was the first U.S. building designed by the architectural firm after they were awarded the Pritzker Prize. Visit the Grace Farms website to learn about the buildings, tours, art installations and exhibits, and register for upcoming programs and events.
New Canaan, CT
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HisTOURy Architecture Tours
Ongoing dates
HisTOURy is a nonprofit organization that offers historical tours that celebrate the architectural heritage found in communities throughout Connecticut and New York.
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Historic Home & Garden Tours in Connecticut
Ongoing
In Connecticut, there are over four centuries of homes that are open to the public to explore. Some were home to well-known historic figures, like Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Others house amazing art collections or are surrounded by lush, expertly tended gardens. You’ll find dozens of these historic houses and gardens, many of which are National Historic Landmarks, all over the state that are open for touring.
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Garden Tours & Events 2024
Clove Brook Farm
Garden Conservancy Open Days
Saturday, September 21st
The garden of Christopher Spitzmiller and Anthony Bellomo.
The garden at Clove Brook Farm was started about seven years ago following a restoration of the historic Greek Revival farmhouse. The garden has quickly grown into a series of interconnected spaces, beginning with a horseshoe-shaped garden near the house that is surrounded by a clipped hornbeam hedge and anchored by a dovecote. A few years ago another large garden “room” was added which centers on an oval swimming pool and Neoclassical style pool house. It’s all documented in A Year at Clove Brook Farm (Rizzoli, 2021, with foreword by Martha Stewart)
Millbrook, New York
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Garden Conservancy Open Days 2024
The Open Days program celebrates the country’s most exciting, creative, and innovative private gardens. Here are dates for upcoming Open Days in our area. And check with the Garden Conservancy for updates.
Dutchess County, NY: September 21st
Fairfield County, CT: August 24th, September 14th, October 5th
New London County, CT: October 12th
Suffolk County, NY (East Hampton & Wainscott): September 7th
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Hollister House & Garden Conservancy Garden Study Weekend
Saturday, September 7th
The Hollister House Garden Study Weekend brings together some of the most important voices at work today in the fields of horticulture and garden design for a weekend of learning, inspiration, and networking. This year the Hollister House is honored to welcome an extraordinary panel of speakers moderated by Page Dickey, director emerita of the Garden Conservancy.
Southbury, CT
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Stay tuned for 2025 Events:
We’ll be sharing dates for these 2025 decorator show houses and garden tours as soon as they are available!
Trade Secrets
Mid-May
The Northeast’s garden event of the year! Trade Secrets rare plant and garden antiques sale features the finest plant and garden antiques vendors from the northeast region and beyond.
Lime Rock Park, 60 White Hollow Road, Lakeville, CT
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Southport Garden Stroll
Early June
Featuring several of Southport’s finest private gardens, this self-guided walking tour starts at the heart of Southport Village at Pequot Library. Don’t miss this floral adventure in an idyllic seaside New England neighborhood.
Southport, CT
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Near & Far Aid Designer House Tour
Late May
The 2024 theme for this popular house tour was Interiors & Inspirations. Join Near & Far Aid for their annual house tour and sunset cocktails.
Southport, Westport, Fairfield
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For the Love of Gardening
June
A joyful Garden Tour of eight exceptional private gardens in Redding that you won’t want to miss. To support New Pond Farm Education Center and the Redding Garden Club.
Redding, CT. This event is held every three years.
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White Flower Farm Spring Tent Sale
June
Enjoy two days of great shopping for your garden at White Flower Farm’s springtime Tent Sale. They’re offering a broad array of perennials, annuals, shrubs and vines, plus unique garden ornaments, supplies, containers, cachepots, decorative accents, and more.
Morris, CT
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Kips Bay Decorator Show House
The month of May
The 2024 showhouse location was a prime example of the magnificent townhouses and mansions that New York City’s gentry called home at the turn of the century.
New York City
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Fine Day Fair
First weekend in June
This annual Home & Garden show features hundreds of plants and flowers plus carefully curated antiques, furniture, one-of-a-kinds, architectural salvage, art, garden statuary, unique gifts and more. Meet, shop and unwind among 60+ artisans, makers, and growers.
Onatru Farm Park, South Salem, NY
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The Junior League of Hartford’s 16th Designer Show House
Spring 2025
Every three years, The Designer Showhouse features a notable home or estate in the greater Hartford area and highlights renowned interior designers and landscape architects from CT, New York, and surrounding states, to completely transform a home’s interior spaces and surrounding grounds. The home opens for three weeks for in-person public tours and a series of special events.
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Housing Works Design on a Dime 2025
April 24-26
Shop stunning vignettes curated by the nation’s top interior designers and filled with premium home décor merchandise donated by hundreds of top brands and makers. Items are marked up to 80% off retail prices and sold to benefit Housing Works’ efforts to provide housing and healthcare for all!
Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th St., New York City
