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...]
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...]
Litchfield Post Office
"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...]
Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy
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...]
Bantam Cinema
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...]
NHL: Litchfield Historic District
CT National Historic Landmark Litchfield Historic District Litchfield Ugh. Another "Historic District." There are six of these bad boys in Connecticut and they are very difficult to pin down and write about in any meaningful way. Litchfield's, as with a few of the others, has several museums swept up into the … [Read more...]
Oliver Wolcott Library
This Library is a Hoot Oliver Wolcott Library Litchfield I'll admit, I'm not your typical "center of Litchfield" photographer. Sure, the main block of businesses is pure New England. Everyone is drawn to the First Congregational Church and its picture book white steeple. The row of historic homes on South Street … [Read more...]
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Trails
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Brookfield, Danbury, Kent, Litchfield, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Sharon, & Sherman Up until 2020, there existed a bunch of land trusts in northwest Connecticut that no longer exist: The New Fairfield Land Trust, The Land Trust of Danbury, The Brookfield Land Trust, … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Litchfield
Everything Litchfield I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Litchfield CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]
Litchfield Land Trust
Litchfield Land Trust When most people think of Litchfield, they think of the downtown area. All the bustling restaurants and cool little curio shops, bounded by the historic green and the perfect white churches. And when most people think of “the Litchfield hills,” they think of the Berkshires to the northwest … [Read more...]