after the town. It was discovered in 1975 after a mysterious outbreak of what appeared to be juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in children who lived in Lyme and Old Lyme. Old Lyme Art Colony The Florence Griswold House in Old Lyme housed an art colony for many years in the early 20th century to many prominent American Impressionist painters. The Lyme Art Colony included Childe Hassam, Edward Charles Volkert, Willard Metcalf, Wilson Irvine, and Henry Ward Ranger, among many others. These artists made Old Lyme a thriving art community, which still continues today. The Griswold House was transformed into an art museum, the Florence Griswold Museum, or affectionately called "Flo Gris", by residents of Old Lyme. Many American Impressionist paintings of the era are of subjects in and around the Griswold House and are featured in the museum, along with many other works and personal possessions of the artists who frequented there. The building of the Old Lyme Congregational Church is known for the many paintings that have been made of it, most notably by Childe Hassam. On the National Register of Historic Places Bennett Rockshelter (added July 31, 1987) Florence Griswold House and Museum – 96 Lyme St. (added May 19, 1993) Lieutenant River III Site (added August 31, 1987) Lieutenant River IV Site (added August 31, 1987) Lieutenant River No. 2 (added August 31, 1987) Natcon Site (added August 31, 1987) Old Lyme Historic District – Lyme Street from Shore Road to Sill Lane, Old Boston Post Road from Sill Lane to Rose Lane (added November 14, 1971) Peck Tavern – 1 Sill Lane (added May 12, 1982) Springbank – 69 Neck Road (added September 17, 2001) Notable people Jim Calhoun (born 1942), head coach of the University of Connecticut's men's basketball team, which won three national championships, and who was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005; began his career as a coach in town at Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Herb Chambers (born 1941), billionaire owner and president of Herb Chambers Companies auto dealerships Elisabeth Gordon Chandler (1913–2006), sculptor, resident, and founder of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Lois Darling (1917–1989), artist and illustrator Albert Einstein, who had a summer home on the Old Lyme shore Chris Elliott (born 1960), actor and screenwriter, known best for his supporting role in the 1998 comedy There's Something About Mary Walker Evans, photographer; lived nearby in Lyme