Anna Maxwell - Connection To Greenwich, Connecticut

Connection To Greenwich, Connecticut

John Stewart Kennedy's banking firm was later passed on to his nephew, J. Kennedy Tod, who continued Stewart's interest in the well-being of Miss Maxwell and the Presbyterian Hospital nurses. Eleanor Lee writes that beginning in 1901 and continuing through 1913, Mr. Tod made available Innis Arden, his estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, to the nurses as a summer retreat, and that from 1906 through 1913 the nurses had the exclusive summer use of the Innis Arden Cottage, a beachside cottage there. Maxwell was photographed with her nurses at Innis Arden Cottage in 1907 and 1911 by Dr. C. Irving Fisher, the Presbyterian Hospital's medical director and an accomplished amateur photographer. Many of Dr. Fisher's photographs of Maxwell and her nurses, including photographs of them at Innis Arden Cottage, survive in the archives of the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Upon Tod's death in 1925, he left his estate, Innis Arden, to the Presbyterian Hospital, which later sold it to the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, where it is now known as Greenwich Point.