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157. Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

March 27, 2010 by Steve Leave a Comment

Do Not to Passover This Place (Pt. 2) West Hartford (Google Maps location) March 11, 2010 Spurred on to experience more of the Jewish experience after enjoying the Sherman Museum of Jewish Civilization at the University of Hartford, I crossed the street (a week later) and made some time for the Jewish Historical … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Appointment Only, Free Museums, Hartford County, Jewish, Libraries, Not Really a Museum Museum, West Hartford

153. C.H. Pease Museum of Natural History

February 23, 2010 by Steve 3 Comments

May I Pease See Your Museum North Canaan (Google Maps Location) February 20, 2010 No one will complain about me writing too much about this little museum. That’s because I don’t have anything to say about it. There is no information online anywhere at all and the signage at the museum was sparse to say the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: BEARS!, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Libraries, Litchfield County, Natural History, North Canaan

Houses, Communities, Urban Legends, Lighthouses, Libraries, Schools, Businesses, & Theaters

December 6, 2009 by Steve 1 Comment

Houses, Communities, Urban Legends, Lighthouses, Libraries, Schools, Businesses, & Theaters Hoo boy, this is a tough category to nail down. There’s just so much crossover with museums and superlatives and National Historic Landmarks and restaurants and other things. The way to look at everything listed below is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses Tagged With: Abandoned and/or Unique Communities, Ghosties, Giant Goofy Things, Libraries, Lighthouses, Other Companies and Businesses, Private Residences, theaters, urban legends

138. Hartford Medical Society Historical Library

September 24, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

Make No Bones About It... It's Back! Farmington (Google Maps Location) September 10, 2009 The waffling is over. I'm giving this place its own pedestal to stand on as a separate museum visit. Sure, the collection is pretty much a scaled down version of a previously visited museum, but I think it's important to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Farmington, Free Museums, Hartford County, Libraries, Not Really a Museum Museum, UConn

The Oldest Public Library in the US

August 28, 2009 by Steve 3 Comments

Cool. Just... Cool Scoville Memorial Library, Salisbury August 2009 US Firsts in Connecticut excite me. Even if they are narrowly defined and a bit sketchy. And if you know me, you know I loves me some libraries. On a drive east from New York on US 44, I crossed the border from New York into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Superlatives Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Libraries, Litchfield County, Salisbury

92. Homer Babbidge Library & Dodd Center

July 14, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

"She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." UConn Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 A few of the Babbidge Library pictures are from Jerry Dougherty's incredible compendium of photos of EVERYTHING in Connecticut. Stop hurting your brain; my title makes no sense whatsoever. Well, it does to me but not to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Libraries, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, State History, Storrs, Tolland County, UConn

88. Wood Memorial Library and Museum

June 23, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

Fact Check: This Isn't Named After Me South Windsor (Google Maps Location) February 23, 2009 Weird. No, not the fact that a rarely open library has a museum that they advertise as a museum. What's weird is going somewhere named the Wood Memorial. Seeing as though my last name is Wood and I'm not dead … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Birds, Free Museums, Hartford County, Libraries, native american history, Natural History, South Windsor

108. Plainville Library Museum

May 29, 2009 by Steve 2 Comments

All of Their Eggs in One Basket Plainville (Google Maps Location) May 28, 2009 Adhering to CTMQ bylaw 9.7 - "If they call themselves a museum, it's a museum" - I hereby present to you the smallest museum I’ve visited to date. I'll be quite surprised to find one smaller on my quest... But one never knows. (Which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Birds, Free Museums, Hartford County, Libraries, native american history, Natural History, Plainville, Tiny Museums

85. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

April 24, 2009 by Steve 7 Comments

You Can't Judge a Book - Or Building - By Its Cover Middletown (Google Maps Location) January 29, 2009 This is going to be annoying having to type Beinecke over and over throughout this post. Why can't cool guys have cool last names like Wood? Whatever this place lacks in the naming department, it more than … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Hoang, Libraries, Modern Architecture, New Haven, New Haven County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Urban Museum of Modern Architecture, Yale

9. Russell Library

January 22, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

Russell Library Middletown Heritage Trail Site 9 123 Broad Street Most importantly, I found my Middletown Heritage Trail brochure here to get me started. And almost as important, their website provides everything else I need to say about this place. "Frances Russell established Russell Library in 1875 in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Libraries, Middlesex County, Middletown, Middletown Heritage Trail

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