The Seton Houses: Organizing a Family Biography

“The Seton Houses: Organizing a Family Biography” will explore the social as well as personal and artistic motivations of the famous Seton family. MacKethan will give a virtual tour of the five houses that they built between 1900 and 1951, four of which claimed Greenwich addresses. Ernest Thompson Seton built his last residence, Seton Castle, on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Anya Seton resided at her home Sea Rune on Binney Lane in Old Greenwich until her death in 1990. (The home has since been demolished.) Through these personal spaces, we can track the course of the Setons’ lives as successful writers, prominent American personalities and as a complex and ultimately failed family.