The Lyme artists’ colony that began with visitors to Florence Griswold’s boardinghouse eventually grew and established the Lyme Art Association in 1914. Florence Griswold gave land to the Association, next to her own house on Lyme Street, for a gallery (of which she would be the first manager). The architect of the 1921 Lyme Art Association building was Charles Adams Platt, who also designed the Freer Gallery in Washington and the Lyman Allen Museum, as well as four of the Cheney mansions in Manchester.
Lyme Art Association (1921)