Steepletop

When poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband, Eugen Boissevain, bought their farmstead in Austerlitz, N.Y., in 1925, Millay was 33 and already a Pulitzer Prize winner, opera librettist, political activist, literary celebrity, and symbol of unfettered feminism. Millay and Boissevain christened the property "Steepletop" after steeplebush, a flowering shrub that flourished in the area.