The Victorian home that Lucy Farnsworth left intact at her death in 1935 — along with an endowment to establish a public art museum — is preserved exactly as it was during her lifetime. Farnsworth was an eccentric who refused to modernize the house and lived extremely frugally despite her substantial inheritance, leaving the bulk of her fortune to found what became the Farnsworth Art Museum.
The house itself is a vivid time capsule of Victorian domestic life: original furnishings, wallpaper, kitchen equipment, and personal effects survive largely untouched. It is included with Farnsworth Art Museum admission and is worth the short walk from the main museum building.