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Yaddo company history timeline

1900

In 1900, after the premature deaths of the Trasks' four children, Spencer Trask decided to turn the estate into an artists' retreat as a gift to his wife.

1926

The first artists arrived in 1926.

1943

Smedley had traveled with Mao Zedong to report on the Chinese Communist Revolution and, beginning in 1943, had spent five years at Yaddo.

1949

In 1949 during the McCarthy Era, a news story accurately accused writer Agnes Smedley of spying for the Soviet Union.

2005

In May 2005, vandals, using paintball guns, damaged two of the Four Seasons statues, the Poet's Bench, a fountain, and pathways with blue paint.

2018

In 2018, Yaddo elected photographer Peter Kayafas and novelist Janice Y.K. Lee as Co-Chairs of its Board of Directors.

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Founded
1900
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Saratoga Springs, NY
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