Welcome to the Maxfield Parrish House Foundation

A view of The Oaks front terrace

The Parrish House Foundation was chartered November 2009 and registered with the IRS as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose purpose is to promote the education and history of the important American art colony that worked and lived in the area roughly from 1885 to the mid 1930’s.  The foundation was established so that the first year of its inception would celebrate the 125th anniversary of its founding by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in 1885.



The foundation is headquartered just off the aptly named Maxfield Parrish Highway in Plainfield, New Hampshire and is housed at the site where Maxfield Parrish built his home.  He called the house “The Oaks” and lived there from 1898 to the time of his death in 1966.



Many of the greats of Parrish’s day such as President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Isadora Duncan, who danced in Parrish’s music room, visited and praised the beauty of the property and the artist’s gardens.

Famed view of Mt. Ascutney from the terrace at The Oaks