Saturdays, Sundays and Monday Holidays, May 28-June 12, 10:00am-4:00pm

The Main House is now open 10am-4pm on Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays.   Discover what life was like on an early 20th century New Hampshire summer estate. See new exhibits in history, ecology and art. Take a historic guided or self-guided tour of the 22-room Colonial Revival Main House, explore the renowned gardens and sculptures, build a fairy house in the children’s Fairy Village and experience the natural world on an easy hike along one of our scenic trails. Our Plant Stand located in the Gatehouse Courtyard is open daily, 10am-4pm. Site admission applies. All Exhibits are open during the Main House hours and included with admission. Please call the office at 603-763-4789 for more information.

Exhibits: May 28-October 10

1st Floor Gallery Exhibit: The John Hay Estate at The Fells creates a special art exhibition this season called “Natural Beauty on Lake Sunapee.”  In the Lake Sunapee Region, nature is all around us and this select group of talented artists have captured the wonder and beauty of the Lake Sunapee area in their artwork. From the lake to the woods, to the flora and the mountains, nature never ceases to amaze us.

 2nd Floor Gallery Exhibit: The John Hay Estate at The Fells in Newbury creates a special art exhibition this season called “Abenaki Life on Lake Sunapee.”  With the help of Sherry Gould, enrolled citizen and Special Projects Genealogist of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation and Co-Director of the Abenaki Trails Project, and Vera Sheehan, of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe and Director of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, the exhibition uses paintings, photography, text, and other traditional art that illustrate the Abenaki experience. 

 History Exhibit: History of The Fells 

This exhibit will focus on the early years of the Hay Estate when John Milton Hay and Clara Stone established The Fells, the middle years when Clarence Hay and Alice Appleton Hay transformed the Estate, and the later years when John Hay, the grandson, continued to find inspiration here as one of America’s leading nature writers. 

 Ecology Exhibit: The Compass to Nature

Just as a navigational compass enables us to guide our way outside, the four points of the “Compass to Nature” provides us direction in developing a connected, caring relationship with the world we live in.    The four cardinal Compass points are Place, Phenology, Naturalists, and Journals.  Unifying the four components is a sense of awe and wonder that drove John Hay’s lifelong fascination with nature.  Located in the Ecology Room of the Pavilion.  Made possible with support from the Wellborn Ecology Fund.