Eliza Allen Starr (1824-1901) was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, and was sent to Boston at age thirteen to finish her education. When she was twenty-one, she opened her own studio, but she found the climate unhealthy and moved to Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Natchez, Mississippi, returning to Brooklyn by 1853. The next year, after a long spiritual struggle, she converted to Catholicism. It was as a Catholic author and illustrator that Starr gained her greatest fame, writing Pilgrims and Shrines (1881), Christian Art in Our Own Age (1891), and Three Archangels and Angels in Art (1899), among other books. She lived in Chicago until the Great Fire of 1871, which consumed her studio. After, she was asked to create an art department for St. Mary’s College in Indiana. This view is of Eliza’s family homestead at The Bars, a section of Deerfield, Massachusetts, so called because farms fields there were once surrounded by long logs, or bars.
Starr, Eliza Allen. Barrs Homestead 1739. Drawing. 1857. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l01-101/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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