Grace Farms Tour

This comprehensive tour invites a closer look at the architecture of the River building and Barns. Take in 360–degree views of the surrounding landscapes while exploring the building’s sustainable design, curated interiors, and materials choices. During the tour, sample a cup of tea from Grace Farms Tea & Coffee, a Certified B Corp that demonstrates and educates about ethical and sustainable supply chains. The River building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning firm, SANAA, holds LEED Gold certification for Building Design and…

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when

March 27, 2027 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

where

365 Lukes Wood Road
New Canaan, CT 06840 United States

cost

30

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This comprehensive tour invites a closer look at the architecture of the River building and Barns. Take in 360–degree views of the surrounding landscapes while exploring the building’s sustainable design, curated interiors, and materials choices. During the tour, sample a cup of tea from Grace Farms Tea & Coffee, a Certified B Corp that demonstrates and educates about ethical and sustainable supply chains.

The River building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning firm, SANAA, holds LEED Gold certification for Building Design and Construction. A demonstration of our continuing efforts to be as sustainable as possible, in 2024, we were awarded Gold certification for Building Operations and Maintenance, building on our LEED Silver certification in 2019.

The River building was awarded the prestigious 2014/2015 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), in addition to the AIA National 2017 Architecture Honor Award and AIA Connecticut 2016 Design Honor Award.

Thursdays and Saturdays | 10:30am – 12:00 pm

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Imagination Playground

Children can build skills, solve problems, and make friends in the Court using an innovative system of large-scale, lightweight blocks designed to encourage fun and learning through curiosity-driven play. For ages 8 and under with adult caregivers. Available throughout September and October: Tues, Wed, Thur, Fri and Sat | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Sundays | 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Materials Studio

Families are invited to play, build, deconstruct, reimagine, and discover the life cycle of everyday materials in our built environment with the Grace Farms Education Team. Inspired by the exhibit With Every Fiber: Pigment, Stone, Glass, families can explore the unique properties of building materials and use their imaginations to create new applications for them. On October 11, 2025, Grace Farms unveiled a new iteration of the With Every Fiber exhibit, which offers insights into forced labor in the building materials supply chain. A…

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For Which It Stands…

This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 75 works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents…

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