Wellesley Town Hall

Wellesley Massachusetts is a gorgeous town with a rich history and many notable residents.  This piece depicts Wellesley’s Town Hall, a Romanesque stone building designed by Shaw & Hunnewell and finished in 1886. Original and prints are available.

If you look closely, you may see some notable residents of Wellesley:

Katharine Lee Bates who wrote America the Beautiful;
poet Sylvia Plath;
Joseph Edward Murray who won the Nobel prize in medicine for the first kidney transplant;
Henry Durant who founded Wellesley College;
Jane Curtin and Mindy Kalig, comedians, writers, actors and producers
Emily Greene Balch, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize;
Horatio Hollis Hunnewell who worked to create the town of Wellesley and a philanthropic leader;
Roger Nash Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.

Also hidden in the sky and stone are Wellesley College’s accomplished alumnae, Madeline Albright and Hillary Clinton.