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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, Not Really a Museum Museum, Stonington, stonington historical society

Litchfield Mid-Century Modern Tour

January 11, 2022 by Steve 1 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, 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

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

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, post offices

Windsor’s Nuclear Reactor

December 8, 2021 by Steve 19 Comments

A Glowing Review Knoll Labs Nuclear Reactor Site Windsor This property is now the site of a massive mixed-used housing development called Great Pond Village. It will include 7 miles of trails, so you can walk around and try to remember what this place was like in the 1960's. Connecticut is currently home to one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, 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...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Litchfield, litchfield academy, schools

Charles and Frank Underwood Houses

November 18, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

FU House Charles and Frank Underwood Houses Tolland When I first learned of these two ornate houses on the Tolland Green, I was initially drawn to the name Frank Underwood. That was the name of Kevin (Eww) Spacey's character in "House of Cards." He wasn't shy about the double meaning of his initials. But then … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Cool Architecture, Tolland

Eastford Public Library/Ivy Glenn Memorial

November 17, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

They Should Grow Ivy on Its Walls Eastford Public Library/Ivy Glenn Memorial Eastford Here's the thing: I can feature whatever I want on this website. Granted, a lot of what I do is fairly well defined. A trail. A museum. A winery. But then there are the buckets of things where I sort of just get to decide. Take … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses Tagged With: Eastford, Libraries

Bantam Cinema

November 3, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

A True Bantamweight Bantam Cinema, Litchfield October 2015 Sorry so many of my pictures are so terribly out of focus. At some point in the life of CTMQ I decided to visit and document Connecticut's small, independent, historic theaters, as they are a dying business unfortunately. (As well as visit and document … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Hoang, Litchfield, theaters

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