What its owner called his Little Studio at Aspect, the estate of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America’s greatest sculptors -- now the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Saint-Gaudens selected the name in memory of his father, whose hometown was Aspect, France. The family summered in Cornish, often surrounded by students and admirers in a "Cornish Colony," including his brother Louis St. Gaudens, also a noted sculptor, from 1885 to 1897, and then, as the sculptor’s health declined after the onset of cancer, from 1900 to St. Gaudens’s death in 1907.