Join us as Jeff Groff, Estate Historian at Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library discusses gentleman (and lady) farmers and their extensive estates with prize-winning farming operations, horses, and livestock.  He will highlight the history of the exclusive Farmer’s Club and the many country sports such as fox hunting that took place on the estates in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He will focus on some notable families like the Cassatts, Roberts, and Montgomerys, and their activities.

Groff has worked at Winterthur since 2006, as Director of Interpretation and Estate Historian from 2006 to 2019, and as Estate Historian since 2019. He was previously director of the Wyck Historic House, Garden, and Farm in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. Groff has an M.A. in American Material Culture from the University of Delaware, and also completed Winterthur’s program in Early American Culture. His research interests include architecture and interiors of American country places, the Colonial Revival, Quaker life, garden history, and “gentlemen farming.”

For more information, contact Dr. Mary Carroll Johansen, mjohansen@holyfamily.edu

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