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Mission
Ten Chimneys Foundation’s Mission
- Preserve and Share the buildings, furnishings, collections, and grounds of a national treasure – Ten Chimneys, the estate created by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
- Serve as a continuing resource and powerful inspiration for theatre, the arts, and the art of living.
- Offer public programs consistent with the Lunts’ varied interests and core values, while maintaining the integrity and intimacy of this extraordinary estate.
Ten Chimneys is a National Historic Landmark, a “Save America’s Treasures” project site, and is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. Ten Chimneys is owned by the non-profit 501(C)3 organization Ten Chimneys Foundation, Inc.
- The Lunts: A Life In The Theatre
- (21 images) Most recent photo: Nov 15, 2006
This gallery features excerpts from Ten Chimneys Foundation's traveling exhibition: The Lunts: A Life in the Theatre.
In 2000, Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theater commissioned the late Dr. Joseph Garton to curate an exhibition celebrating the Lunts' extraordinary life in the theatre. On July 19th 2001, this exhibit went on permanent display in New York City at the Lunt-Fontanne.
A Life in the Theatre is an exhibition of historic photographs with text that tells the remarkable life stories of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne - "The First Couple of American Theatre." A combination of stunning images from their many Broadway hits and carefully posed "candids" of them on-stage at their Wisconsin estate, Ten Chimneys, the exhibition illuminates the lives of the two actors who dominated the American stage for forty years.
A copy of the original Lunt-Fontanne Theatre exhibit was made and is available through Ten Chimneys Foundation for semi-private venues. For information on booking this exhibition, please contact us at (262) 968-4161, ext. 203, or kweir-martell@tenchimneys.org.
- A Peek at The Estate
- (12 images) Most recent photo: Jan 09, 2009
- Lynn and Alfred named their Genesee Depot, Wisconsin, estate after the number of chimneys on the Main House, Cottage, and Studio combined. The elegant three-story Main House has six chimneys and eighteen rooms (including the: Entry Hall, Garden Room, Flirtation Room, Drawing Room, Library, Belasco Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Helen Hayes Bedroom, Laurence Olivier Bedroom, Noël Coward Bedroom, Master Bedroom, Lynn’s Dressing Room, and Lynn’s Sewing Room). The Lunts’ quaint country Cottage has three chimneys and five main rooms (Living Room, Kitchen, Syrie Maugham Bedroom, Library, and Bugbee Bedroom). The one-room Swedish-style log cabin Studio has one chimney. The 60-acre estate, nestled in the rolling Kettle Moraine of southeast Wisconsin, also includes a charming pool and pool house, a creamery, a greenhouse, barns, stables, and other bucolic outbuildings.
