The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum and Wallace Nutting

Wallace Nutting was a minister in the early 20th century, who tired of pastoral work.  A passionate 

antiquarian and photographer, Nutting began posing his wife and other friends in colonial garb

in settings with historic furniture and furnishings.  His photographs and the prints 

made from them made Nutting famous and fabulously wealthy.

Nutting bought five historic houses around New England, including Wethersfield's Joseph Webb house, now part of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum.  Many of the house's rooms have murals painted a century ago as backgrounds for Nutting's photographs.  Through September,
 the museum is presenting exhibitions of Nutting photographs and prints, as well as
some rooms fitted out as they were when Nutting photographed them in 1916.

This is Birthday Flowers, a 1916 Nutting picture set in the Webb house and simulated today in the museum.  (Taken from an image in a Hartford Courant article on the internet.)

The museum's fine gardens are often the setting for summer weddings.