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Leroy Anderson House

December 8, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

LEEROOOOYYY!!!!! anderson Woodbury, (Google Maps location) June 2018 Woodbury is a quirky little town. Home of America's first Episcopal Bishop and... Rob Zombie. Home of Connecticut's Antiques Central and... the modernist Hogpen Hill Farms Sculpture Park. Home of a little pewter museum and... a weirdo little zoo. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Cool Architecture, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Litchfield County, Modern Architecture, private museum, Woodbury

Rick Nicita Gallery & Cinema Archives

February 8, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

NiceTaSeeya Nicita, if Only for a Minute Middletown (Google Maps location) February 20, 2016 How many words can I possibly write about this tiny little place? Movies. Film. Cinema. I went decades of my adult life not caring a whit about this whole world of culture and art. I probably went years without seeing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Colleges & Universities, Cool Architecture, Damian, Free Museums, Middlesex County, Middletown, Modern Architecture, Not Really a Museum Museum, Tiny Museums, Wesleyan

Litchfield Mid-Century Modern Tour

January 11, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

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

Oliver Wolcott Library

April 19, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Cool Architecture, eliot noyes, Libraries, Litchfield, Litchfield County, litchfield national historic district, Modern Architecture

Eliot Noyes House

March 8, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Bring the Noyes New Canaan (Google Maps location) November 13, 2020 The pandemic year of 2020, we can all agree, was pretty terrible. My little family of four was fortunate to make it through the year uninfected, but we knew many who were not so lucky. Calvin and I remained as active as we could, hiking and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Art, Cool Architecture, eliot noyes, Fairfield County, Free Museums, Hoang, Modern Architecture, New Canaan, Not Really a Museum Museum, Private Residences

The Boat Building

February 14, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

We're Not Gonna Need a Bigger Boat The World's First Two-Sided Building, Hartford Yes! Another page about another insurance company in Hartford. This isn't a surprise, is it? After all, the capital city laid claim to being the "Insurance Capital of the World" for a century. (While people still say it, I believe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Cool Architecture, Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hartford, Hartford County, Modern Architecture

Cedar Bridge House

January 28, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Bridge Over Troubled Listing Cedar Bridge House, Glastonbury Oh snap, this is another page about something that I have not actually visited myself. I think that makes maybe three out of thousands on this site. (Warning: there will be more, mostly about private homes that I can only admire/gawk at from my keyboard.) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Glastonbury, Hartford County, Modern Architecture, Private Residences

Kent Memorial Library

October 3, 2020 by Steve 1 Comment

Suffield, Not Kent Kent Memorial Library Suffield There are a bunch of museums (and "museums") at libraries around the state. There are art galleries within lots of libraries. There's the oldest public library in the United States in Salisbury. And there are still several Carnegie Libraries worth noting. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Hartford County, Libraries, Modern Architecture, Suffield

The Wilde Building

August 20, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

That's Wilde, Man, Wilde The Wilde Building, Bloomfield Currently the Cigna headquarters, this place deserves more than a passing mention in a throwaway post... but then I'd have to seek out all the cool office buildings in the state and that ain't happening. I realize mid-century design isn’t for everyone, but I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Bloomfield, Cool Architecture, Hartford County, Modern Architecture

Henry F. Miller House

January 27, 2020 by Steve 3 Comments

Sexier Than a Henry Miller Book Henry F. Miller House 30 Derby Street, Orange CTMQ readers know that it is the very rare page on this site wherein I write about some place I didn’t actually visit. I can count on one hand (out of thousands of pages) how many times I’ve done this. Well, this is such a page. (A page … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Cool Architecture, Modern Architecture, New Haven County, Orange

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