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CTMQ > historic house museums

Andrews Homestead Museum

January 5, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Silver Metal Meriden (Google Maps location) September 2018 Meriden. What do you think of when someone mentions Meriden? The Police Academy? The formerly bustling silver industry? Both? Well, then do I have a museum for you! The Moses Andrews House is a historic house museum in Meriden. Built about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Free Museums, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Industrial History, Meriden, New Haven County, Town History

Hyland House Museum

May 23, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hy-Ho, Hy-Ho, It¹s Off to Another Museum I Go... Guilford (Google Maps location) June 2016 Any reader of this website knows that there are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. (And, presumably, other surrounding states as well.) When I began visiting them and writing about then long ago, I often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Guilford, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County

Medad Stone Tavern Museum

March 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

"But What About Me, Dad?" Guilford (Google Maps location) June 11, 2016 For whatever reason I've always thought in my head that the guy's name was Stone Medad. And I always thought that was funny. Now, as I begin writing about my visit to the museum with my son Damian and notice the guy's name was actually Medad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Guilford, guilford keeping society, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County

Strong-Howard House

January 12, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Taking a Fyler Windsor (Google Maps location) December 2021 True story: Back in 2006 when I first started putting together the framework of this ridiculous website - back in the "Connecticut MuseumQuest" days, I had a museum listed named the Lt. Walter Fyler House in Windsor. I don't remember when I realized such … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Windsor, windsor historical society

Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House

December 22, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Really Old House in a Really Old Town Windsor (Google Maps location) December 2021 Windsor is one of "The Big Three" in Connecticut. Most readers of this website know what I mean by that, but if you don't, "The Big Three" refers to Windsor, Hartford, Wethersfield - the first three towns formed and settled (by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Windsor, windsor historical society

NHL: Oliver Ellsworth Homestead

December 13, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

CT National Historic Landmark Oliver Ellsworth Homestead Windsor The Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, also known as Elmwood, is now a historic house museum at 788 Palisado Avenue in Windsor. It was (is?) called Elmwood because Ellsworth planted 13 elm trees to commemorate the 13 states at the time. All the trees died … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, National "Stuff" Tagged With: DAR, Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, National Historic Landmarks, Windsor

Oliver Ellsworth Homestead

December 13, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

Ells Bells Windsor (Google Maps location) December 2021 There it was, placed near the road as I was leaving the Windsor Public Library. I was turning out of the parking lot right next to the handsome town green featuring the large Evelyn Batchelder War Eagle sculpture and happened to see a sign advertising an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, National "Stuff", New Post Tagged With: DAR, Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Windsor

Deming-Young Farm & House

May 10, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

What's Old is Newington Again Newington (Google Maps location) June 2015 I have a skewed view of Newington's Deming-Young Farm and House Museum simply because I visited it on Connecticut's annual Open House Day. My sons and I got the full show with period costumes and acting! The house is pretty much never open … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Newington, Rarely Open

Bush-Holley House Museum

February 21, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

"A Museum in the Hand is Worth Two at the Bush-Holley" Greenwich (Google Maps location) May 25, 2014 The Bush-Holley House is part of the CT Art Trail, the CT Women's Heritage Trail, and is also a National Historic Landmark. Greenwich. Ah, Greenwich. That town we all know is wealthy but so few of us … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Bush-holley House, Connecticut Art Trail, Fairfield County, Greenwich, greenwich historical society, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Hoang, Town History, Women's Heritage Trail

440. Huntington Homestead Museum

October 2, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hunting in Scotland Scotland (Google Maps location) June 8, 2019 You’ll likely find this ridiculous - and you should - but I’ve always had this weirdly romanticized vision of what Scotland, Connecticut is like. This vision is formed, obviously, by its namesake country. It’s not exactly easy to get to for most of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, National "Stuff", New Post Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Free Museums, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Military History, National Historic Landmarks, Scotland, Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail, Windham County

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