Glebe House Museum and Gertrude Jekyll Garden
Celebrating 100 Years & Beyond.
The Glebe House Museum is one of the earliest historic house museums in the nation and the birthplace of the Episcopal Church in America. Built around 1740 in the village center of Woodbury, it is surrounded by the only Gertrude Jekyll garden design surviving in the United States.
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The Glebe House Museum and Gertrude Jekyll Garden sits in the village center of historic Woodbury in the Litchfield Hills. Built around 1740, the house combines gambrel and saltbox roof styles and is furnished with period pieces, many made locally during the 18th century. It served as the home of Woodbury’s first Anglican priest, John Rutgers Marshall, and is considered the birthplace of the Episcopal Church in the New World. In 1926 the renowned English horticultural designer Gertrude Jekyll was commissioned to design an old-fashioned garden for the new museum; that garden, with its 300 feet of classic English mixed border and foundation plantings, is the only Jekyll design surviving in the United States. The museum is open to visitors Friday through Sunday afternoons, while the garden is open dawn to dusk year-round for self-guided visits.