Coltsville Historic District CT National Historic Landmark 80 Wethersfield Avenue (Armsmear) and Colt areas to the east 2017 Update: Coltsville is now Coltsville National Historic Park! It joins Weir Farm National Historic Site as the only National Parklike things in the state. It took 20 years to get that … [Read more...]
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NHL: Henry Barnard House
Henry Barnard House CT National Historic Landmark 118 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut The Henry Barnard House exemplifies what I love about this NHL list. It’s not the high-profile buildings that even the most ignorant Nutmeggers know about... it’s these more-or-less nondescript buildings that we pass by … [Read more...]
ASME: Cos Cob Power Station
ASME Landmark #76 (1907) AC Electrification New York, New Haven & Hartford Cos Cob (Greenwich) I didn't think this Landmark was all that exciting. In fact, the original power plant no longer exists, so they supposedly hung a plaque at the train station nearby. And after I searched the tiny Cos Cob train station … [Read more...]
NHL: Ida Tarbell House
Ida Tarbell House CT National Historic Landmark Easton (Private Residence) I really enjoyed this National Historic Landmark. For one thing, the drive to (and from) it through Easton is beautiful. (Seriously, we drove from this house over to Helen Keller’s house and it felt like we were in Maine or something), but … [Read more...]
ASME: Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump
ASME Landmark #131 (1947) Stanadyne Auto Corp., Diesel Systems Division Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump Windsor I have the very good fortune of living and/or working rather close to half of these American Society of Mechanical Engineers Landmarks. Bloomfield! Windsor! Windsor Locks! Hartford! If I … [Read more...]
143. B.F. Clyde’s Cider Mill
How You Like These Apples? B.F. Clyde's Cider Mill, Stonington (Google Maps location) October 24, 2009 Since this first visit, we have been to Clyde's several times. There are some pictures from a 2013 as well. Since you were wondering, no, I haven’t used this title before. Over at the oldest operational cider … [Read more...]
ASME: BF Clyde’s Cider Mill
ASME Landmark #181 (1898) BF Clyde's Steam Powered Cider Mill Stonington You very well may have stumbled onto this particular page about BF Clyde’s from one of the other entries around the website. After all, this place shows up on CTMQ in many lists – as a museum, as a cider (soft AND hard) mill, as the oldest … [Read more...]
ASME: Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder
ASME Landmark # 108 (1957) Jacobs Manufacturing Company Bloomfield This is the ASME Landmark that really got me interested in this little list of eight nine rather random engineering achievements in Connecticut. Two reasons: One, Jacobs Manufacturing is only a few minutes from my office and two, I’d read a … [Read more...]
NHL: Samuel Wadsworth Russell House
Samuel Wadsworth Russell House National Historic Landmark 350 High Street, Middletown, quasi-public Now this place just looks like a National Historic Landmark. I’d stopped by in the midst of my Middletown Heritage Trail experience and wussed out on poking around inside. Now I know I should have… Especially … [Read more...]
NHL: Richard Alsop IV House
Richard Alsop IV House National Historic Landmark 301 High St., Middletown (House is owned by Wesleyan and you can maybe check it out with a guide) Funny – I’ve been inside this NHL and had no idea. You see, Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center is located inside this beautiful old house, and I visited that a while … [Read more...]
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