Edna St. Vincent Millay House & Gardens (Steepletop)

Steepletop, also known as the Edna St. Vincent Millay House, was the farmhouse home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband Eugene Jan Boissevain, in Austerlitz, New York, United States. Her former home and gardens are maintained by the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on November 11, 1971. The Millay Colony for the Arts, founded in 1973 by Norma Millay Ellis, sister of the poet, is also located at Steepletop.Millay Colony for the Arts, about, tour. 30 June 2008. The name Steepletop comes from a pink, conical wildflower that grows there. The Society opened the house for tours in 2010.