Ellen Battell Stoeckel
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Ellen Battell Stoeckel was an American arts patron. Stoeckel had a long association with Yale University, music and her hometown of Norfolk, Connecticut. After her death her expansive estate, Whitehou
View of the Whitehouse (on left) in Norfolk, Connecticut, where Ellen Battell Stoeckel was born, lived and later bequeathed to Yale University after her death
The Music Shed in Norfolk, home of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, hosted in Norfolk, Connecticut, is a summer music festival. Set among the Litchfield Hills of the lower Berkshires, the Festival traces its roots to the Battell fam
Ellen Battell Stoeckel
…to Yale University. Yale established the Norfolk Music School on the property, where the university continues to host music education. Today, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Litchfield County Choral Union continue to offer opportunities for music in Norfolk. The Last Moments of John Brown, painting commissioned by…
Exterior of the music shed