A Pox On You All The Pest House, Durham September 2023 While a lot of what I uncover and research and seek and find in Connecticut is a solo effort, sometimes that's just not good enough. So I very much appreciate when helpful readers come to my aid. (Allow me to take a moment to lament the death of Twitter. … [Read more...]
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Houses, Communities, Urban Legends, Lighthouses, Libraries, Schools, Businesses, & Theaters
Connecticut’s Octagon Houses
There's Eight Sides to Every Story Connecticut's Octagon Houses According to the one article about these things and the zero amount of research I've done beyond that, there are 16 19th-century octagon houses still standing in Connecticut (and the Old Saybrook one is suss). But since that article is by Daniel … [Read more...]
Moses Austin House
SXSW Durham The Elias/Moses Austin House Durham This is one of those places I have passed dozens of times and never thought it rose to the level of warranting CTMQ inclusion. And as I write this very sentence you're reading, I'm still not sure that it does. In fact, it really doesn't. But it's so random and so … [Read more...]
Abington Social Library
Book It Abington Social Library, Pomfret This is a US Oldest as well as a US First. Next time you're tooling around Abington (Pomfret) looking for We-Lik-It Ice Cream - why else would you be here? - and pass the "oldest now standing meeting house in Connecticut", look two buildings north for the Abington Social … [Read more...]
Mark Twain Library
Wherever the Twain Shall Meet Mark Twain Library, Redding What a life this Mark Twain guy had, huh? Being a Connecticut resident, it's hard for me to assume which former home of his most people associate with the legendary author, traveler, critic, and raconteur but I've always felt it's his childhood home of … [Read more...]
Pork Hollow
"The British Are Coming... For Our Pork!" Pork Hollow, Ansonia Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere. Sure, his legendary ride was early in the War for Independence, as he rode at midnight to warn the locals and the militia that "The British are Coming" to Lexington and Concord. The midnight ride was dramatized … [Read more...]
Sterling Opera House (Abandoned)
No Ficken Joke Sterling Opera House, Derby I suppose I could have tried to get a personal tour of this place. After all, NBC30 did. So did Atlas Obscura as well as Damned Connecticut. In a way, I consider all three of those outlets peers. I'll also consider them primary source material for this page. Because, as … [Read more...]
Dragon’s Breath Forge
Straight Fire Dragon's Breath Forge, Wolcott December 2022 Swords. Knives. All kinds of swords and knives. Types of swords and knives that no one not deeply involved in the world of swords and knives have ever heard of. And who, pray tell, is "deeply involved in the world of swords and knives" in our little … [Read more...]
King Solomon’s Lodge No. 7
Mason-The-Cliff King Solomon's Lodge No.7, Woodbury This is one of those CTMQ pages that simply must exist, as this is one of those buildings that everyone has driven past on Main Street (Route 6) in Woodbury and wondered, "what the heck is that thing up there?" That thing up there is King Solomon's Lodge … [Read more...]
Goodspeed Opera House
Swingin' Good Time East Haddam (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Iconic. From a national view, there are very few things that are truly iconic in Connecticut. Yale, New Haven pizza, Mark Twain's House, Mystic Seaport maybe... insurance? The Whalers logo for sure. Um, Greenwich wealth? CTMQ? But if … [Read more...]
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