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Howard’s Bookstore and Noelke Gallery

April 5, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

Howards End Howard's Bookstore and Noelke Gallery, Torrington February 2022 With used bookstores such rarities these days, I visit and write about some them on CTMQ if only because they'll likely be extinct by the time I die. Hoo boy, that was a rough lede. Sorry to bum you out. I'm sure some will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: book store, books, Litchfield County, Other Companies and Businesses, Torrington

East Canaan Post Office

March 7, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Canaaaaaaaaaaan! East Canaan Post Office, North Canaan I'm annoyed with myself. I'm annoyed I started noticing unique post offices around Connecticut and now I "have to" document them and write a bunch of sentences about them. In the end, they're just post offices, y'know? This one in the East Canaan section … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Litchfield County, North Canaan, post offices

Staffordville Post Office

February 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Whole Package Staffordville Post Office, Stafford If you ever find yourself driving around Staffordville and western Union and become lost in the thought that you've somehow driven off the grid to somewhere in, oh I don't know, Michigan's upper peninsula somehow, this creepy post office may wind up being your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: post offices, Stafford, Tolland County

R.W. Woolworth Library and Research Center

January 25, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Connecticut’s Other Boat Building Stonington (Google Maps location) January 2016 There are a lot of reasons to head to Stonington. Restaurants, seaside walks, breweries, wineries, shopping, all the Mystic stuff... interesting little museum-like library hybrids. That's right. Interesting little museum-like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Libraries, New London County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Stonington, stonington historical society

Litchfield Mid-Century Modern Tour

January 11, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Something's Breuering Mid-Century Modern House Tour, Litchfield When asked, everyone familiar with Connecticut knows that Litchfield is home to large old historic homes and the center of town is filled with colonials. And they'd be mostly right. The Oliver Wolcott House and the Tapping Reeve House and Law School to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Cool Architecture, Historic Houses, Litchfield, Litchfield County, Modern Architecture

Harriet Beecher Stowe Birthplace

December 21, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Beecher Nuts Beecher Homesite Litchfield Now don't get all crazy on me. I'm not going to be photographing and writing about every site with a brown sign in Connecticut. (I recently drove by the former home of Moses Austin in Durham and its brown sign. Moses was the father of Stephen F. Austin who is decidedly more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Historic Houses, Litchfield, Litchfield County

Tolland Red and White

December 15, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

... and Electric Blue Tolland Red and White Tolland There's this little gray-area category here on CTMQ of stores that have museum-like qualities. They're certainly not museums, but they're unique and interesting enough to slip onto the pages of this website. One such store is Tolland Red and White. After … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Other Companies and Businesses, Tolland, Tolland County

Litchfield Post Office

December 11, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

"Good Looking" Litchfield Post Office, Litchfield Hey, you clicked on the link to take you here, not me. I don't know why you did, but you did. And you know what your reward is? A whole lotta nothin'. I began noticing some of Connecticut's more unique post offices - and we do have our share - and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Litchfield, Litchfield County, post offices

Windsor’s Nuclear Reactor

December 8, 2021 by Steve 10 Comments

A Glowing Review Knoll Labs Nuclear Reactor Site Windsor Connecticut is currently home to one nuclear powerplant: Millstone in Waterford. We used to have another - Connecticut Yankee in Haddam, now decommissioned - and there are, of course, nuclear submarines stationed in Groton. But there was another nuclear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Hartford County, Other Companies and Businesses, Windsor

Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy

December 6, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Sarah Fierce Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy Litchfield Every CTMQ reader knows about the historic importance of The American School for the Deaf in West Hartford and Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury - two Connecticut educational institutions that broke barriers. Many know that Litchfield is … [Read more...]

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