Morgan Colt (11 September 1876 – 12 June 1926) was an American metalworker, furniture craftsman, impressionist painter, and architect. He helped found the New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania colony of painters—the leading landscape school in the United States during the early 20th–century—but was better known as a craftsman than a painter, specializing in hand–wrought iron garden furniture and fire screens. Many of his paintings were accidentally destroyed after his death. Early life Morgan Colt was born in Summit, New Jersey. His father was a member of the Colt gun manufacturing family. He attended the School of Architecture at Columbia University, graduating in 1901. While at Columbia, he was a member of the Fraternity of Delta Psi (St. Anthony Hall). He also studied art at the Academie Julian in Paris and with painter William Langson Lathrop in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Career Architect Colt qualified as an architect and practiced this profession in New York City. Around 1905, he began specializing in houses featuring hand–crafted wood and iron furniture. One of his designs was the White Oaks, the country mansion of Jane Wood (Mrs. G. E. Wood), later the Holmquist School for Girls (1925), and now the Hotel du Village in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He also designed a house in New Hope, Pennsylvania for Robert W. Welsh. Both houses, as well as his own residence in New Hope, were featured in The Architectural Record in 1923. In 1924, he designed a house for John Folinsbee, including designing the doors, ironwork, and lighting. He also designed an Episcopal Community Center in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania. In addition, he designed the alter, candle holders, and lectern for St. Philips Chapel on River Road in New Hope sometime after 1921. Little English Village Colt was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement in England, and began designing and making wood and iron furniture using traditional techniques. Around 1912, he moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania where he began building a "Little English Village" which consisted of eight cottages of various English architectural styles. The primary structure was his residence, a former barn that he converted into a Tudor Revival style house. It featured carved woodwork and doors, leaded glass windows, and a slate roof. One admirer said, "The one–time pig pen has budded, leaved and blossomed into one of the most charming abodes a vivid fancy could imagine. The woodwork of its doorways are enriched