In 1944, Marie Zimmerman (1879-1972) closed her National Arts Club Studio and moved away from the New York art scene to her family's vacation home near Milford, Pennsilvania. She was in her mid-60's, a nationally acclaimed metal crafts artist with a half-dozen employees, coverage in national arts magazines, and exhibitions from coast to coast. For the next 20 years, she would alternate her residence from Milford in the warm months to Florida in the winter. Local people recall a small woman, plainly dressed in well-cut dark tweeds, often with a matching tweed hat. Or wearing riding pants, especially to go hunting. The home she retired to was on property she had known all her life, a farm bought by her father when she was three. At the age of 13, Marie had camped out alone in the woods, fishing for her dinner. In 1910, she had designed a summer home for her family on the property in an eclectic smattering of Romanesque, Dutch Colonial Revival, and just plain playful styles. A gambrel roof, Dutch doors with big strap hinges, a tower reminiscent of a windmill, huge interior spaces of wood and stone: whem Marie's brothers and sisters predeceassed her in the 1930s, she inherited a home that was an artistic expression of herself a quarter-century before. It is hardly surprising that she never wanted to give it up.