Paine Art Center & Gardens

ABOUT

From strategic planning meetings to client cocktail receptions, the Paine offers an exceptional setting to help you make a great impression. The Conservatory provides dramatic, year-round meeting space for large groups, and the adjoining Carriage House offers a charming space for smaller meetings and gatherings. • Private and flexible venues to fit groups ranging from 12 to 200 • Seamless event experience with appropriate tables, chairs, china, glassware and flatware • Technology is available, including Wi-fi and TVs for presentations • Mansion and exhibition tours can be arranged to enhance the experience • Twenty garden areas provide a grand setting • Free ample parking The Paine Art Center and Gardens is an English-inspired estate in a beautiful Wisconsin setting. Construction of the Paine began in 1925 and did not finish until 1948 when it finally opened to the public. Today, the historic Paine property holds a collection of more than a thousand artworks, including paintings, sculptures, furnishings and decorative objects. The entire estate features 20 garden areas, which have been designed to create outdoor "rooms" showcasing a wide variety of plants.

MAP

AMENITIES

General
General
  • excerpt: Nathan and Jessie Paine created an estate that reflects pride in their English heritage and Wisconsin home. In 1925, they commissioned Bryant Fleming, an architect from Ithaca, New York, to design a Tudor Revival-style country estate. Both Nathan and Jessie’s ancestors were English, which likely inspired their selection of this architectural style and much of the interior design and furnishings. Architect Bryant Fleming varied the house’s interior and exterior architectural features, such as arches, doorways, columns, window panes, and chimney stacks, to give it the appearance of being built over three centuries in evolving English styles. Much of the estate’s architecture, décor, artworks, and landscaping derives from English country houses while utilizing and accentuating the natural resources and beauty of Wisconsin. The rooms and hallways of the Paine mansion display many items from Nathan and Jessie Kimberly Paines’ collection of fine art and decorative objects, most notably, French Barbizon and American landscape paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily purchased in the mid-1920’s. The estate’s gardens also feature several sculptures as focal points of the outdoor “galleries.” While a majority of the collection was acquired by the Paines, it has also grown substantially through donations and purchases while continuing to reflect the subjects and spirit of the founder’s original gift. The Paine estate features twenty garden areas for public enjoyment and education. In concert with the historic architecture, the garden designs create outdoor “rooms” showcasing a wide variety of plants. Like the Paine mansion’s rooms and galleries, the gardens are designed to create a variety of intimate and grand settings. Set against the backdrop of the mansion, the gardens showcase perennials that are especially hardy in Wisconsin’s climate as well as trees, shrubs and wildflowers native to the state. Displays of annuals and bulbs change each year and present new varieties and unusual combinations to inspire every level of garden enthusiast.
  • Family Friendly:
  • Handicap Accessible:
  • Onsite Parking:
  • Quick Info: Capacity 200, four acres of botanical gardens, historic venue
  • Region:
    • South of the Fox River
    • University
Space Layouts
  • Reception:
Venues
  • Meeting Spaces:
  • Special Event Spaces:
Select Amenities
  • Exhibit:
  • Family Friendly:
  • Handicap Accessible:
  • Meeting Space:
  • Onsite Parking:
  • Outdoor Seating:
  • Reception:
  • Restrooms:
  • Special Event Spaces: