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...]
Dr. Chester Hunt Office
Imagine Hunting For Your Appointment Here Dr. Chester Hunt Office Windham I'd been holding onto my pictures and "story" of this building for at least a decade. I'm tired of waiting, so here we are: on the Windham Green and the cute little Dr. Chester Hunt Office building. What was I waiting for? At some … [Read more...]
Medad Stone Tavern Museum
"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...]
NHL: Oliver Wolcott House
CT National Historic Landmark Oliver Wolcott House Litchfield Beautiful Litchfield, home to many historic houses and events and people. And, interestingly, also home to some of the most well-regarded mid-century modern homes as well. Eclectic Litchfield. The Olivers Wolcott of Litchfield are a huge part of the … [Read more...]
Strong-Howard House
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...]
Litchfield Mid-Century Modern Tour
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...]
Dr. Hezekiah Chaffee House
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...]
Harriet Beecher Stowe Birthplace
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...]
NHL: Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
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...]
Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
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...]
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