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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-644
WEIR FARM NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
REDESIGNATION ACT
DECEMBER 14, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 5852]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5852) to redesignate the Weir Farm National Historic
Site in the State of Connecticut as the Weir Farm National Histor-
ical Park, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 5852 is to redesignate the Weir Farm Na-
tional Historic Site in the State of Connecticut as the Weir Farm
National Historical Park.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 1882, the American artist Julian Alden Weir traded a still life
painting he had acquired in Europe for a 153-acre farm in
Branchville, Connecticut. At the farm, Weir spent many years de-
veloping a new approach to landscape painting, using the rural set-
ting for inspiration, and gained a reputation as a leader of the
American Impressionists.1
In 1990, Congress established the Weir Farm National Historic
Site (P.L. 101-485) in Fairfield County, Connecticut, to preserve
the house, studio, farm buildings, and rural landscape that inspired
Weir's transition into American Impressionism. Today, the 68-acre
National Historic Site comprises 15 historic structures, including
the studio of American Master Sculptor Mahonri Young, as well as
'National Park Service. (n.d.) Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut: Julian Alden
Weir. Retrieved from https://www.nps.gov/wefa/learn/historyculture/jaldenweir.htm.
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