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CTMQ > Historic Houses

Osborne Homestead Museum

February 8, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Land of Os Derby (Google Maps Location) December 2022 The Osborne Homestead Museum is part of the CT Women's Heritage Trail and features a CT Historic Garden. There's also the Kellogg Environmental Center located right next door. On top of that, there are also trails to hike around the state park. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails, Everything Else, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, derby, Free Museums, Historic Gardens, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County, Women's Heritage Trail

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

Weir Farm National Historical Park

September 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

First Impressions Are Everything Wilton & Ridgefield (Google Maps location) May 25, 2017 Weir Farm is a lot of things beyond being "just" a museum. It was Connecticut's only National Park(ish) for years and years until Coltsville in Hartford got its NHP designation more recently - but that still has a long way to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Connecticut Art Trail, Fairfield County, Free Museums, Gardens, Historic Gardens, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Hoang, national historic park, Ridgefield, Wilton

Noden-Reed Museum

September 1, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Windsor Locks'ed Down Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) August 2022 On the surface, I live a pretty normal suburban married dad life. Minivan, yardwork, soccer games. But lurking beneath that veneer of normalcy is a weirdo who aims to go to every museum in the state. Many hundreds of them. And not only that, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: CT Historic Barns Trail, Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Rarely Open, Tools, Windsor Locks

Welles-Shipman-Ward House

July 11, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Welles-Shipman-Wow Glastonbury (Google Maps location) June 2016 Welles, Welles, Welles. Another historic house museum in another Connecticut River town. Welles, Shipman, Ward... Except... except this time I had Damian with me and the docent at the house museum was magical. I wound up taking videos during my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Glastonbury, Hartford County, historic house museums, Historic Houses, historical society of glastonbury, 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

Dr. Chester Hunt Office

April 28, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

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

NHL: Oliver Wolcott House

January 22, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, National "Stuff", New Post Tagged With: Historic Houses, Litchfield, Litchfield County, National Historic Landmarks

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

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