Yale University Library

 

Lewis Walpole Library

Lewis Walpole Library Web Page

Physical Address: 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032 [google map]

Mailing Address: PO Box 1408, Farmington, CT 06034

Phone: (860) 677-2140

Email: walpole@yale.edu

The Lewis Walpole Library is a research library for eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Its collections include significant holdings of eighteenth-century British books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, and paintings, as well as important examples of the decorative arts. Housed in an historic frame house in Farmington and given to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis and Annie Burr Lewis, the Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library, open to researchers by appointment.