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464. Eliot Noyes House

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464. Eliot Noyes House

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 uninfected, but we knew many who were not so lucky. Calvin and I remained as active as we could, hiking and cycling around … [Read more...]

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

Cedar Bridge House

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Cedar Bridge House

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

Chrismark Castle

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Chrismark Castle

Christ!(mark Castle) Chrismark Castle, Woodstock All pictures from Zillow.com You’ve clicked on a very, very rare page here on CTMQ. For it is currently the only one of nearly 2,500 pages with no pictures of my own about a place I haven’t actually visited – nor likely ever will. Also, the vast bulk of what’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Castles, Private Residences, Windham County, Woodstock

Saponare Christmas House

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Saponare Christmas House

Scary Christmas George Saponare Christmas House, Windsor December 2018 I’m not a decorator. Of course I’m not an interior decorator; what I mean by my opening salvo is that I just don’t decorate anything. Once, while helping my wife get the Christmas decorations out of their basement lair, I asked, “if you lived … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Calvin, Christmas, Creepy Dolls, Hartford County, Private Residences, Windsor

Archer-Gilligan House

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Archer-Gilligan House

Arsenic and Old Lace House Archer-Gilligan House, Windsor My son Calvin was with me when I drove by this large and rather bland brick house near the center of Windsor. I had the idea that I’d ask him to hop out of the car and pose in some goofy way in front of the house. You know, to add some flavor to this … [Read more...]

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

Gay Manse

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Gay Manse

Gay Manse. That's It. Just Gay Manse Suffield Y'know, I'm a liberal man who is proud to be a liberal, fighting for liberal causes... including equal rights and recognition for all GBLT (etc.) people But I'm also a dopey guy. And as a dopey guy, I can't ignore a historic building named "Gay Manse." If it was … [Read more...]

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

3 Cool Historic Buildings in Essex

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3 Cool Historic Buildings in Essex

A First, An Oldest, and The House Witch Hazel Built Remodeled Essex Essex. Always on everyone’s list when it comes to top 10 Connecticut towns; whether that list is “cutest” or “quaintest” or simply “best.” Heck, it is one of the four Connecticut entries in 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. There … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Cool Architecture, Essex, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Industrial History, Middlesex County, Private Residences

Mystic Spite House

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Mystic Spite House

Such Spite in Such a Beautiful Place Mystic section of Groton June 14, 2016 If you happened to have come to this page from a link on Connecticut's other, more colorful, spite house, I must warn you: this one isn't nearly as exciting. In fact, it's for sale today (June 2016) for $1.35 million dollars. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Great Views, Groton, Mystic, New London County, Private Residences, Spite Houses

White Cloud

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White Cloud

Oh It's Not So Bad White Cloud Salisbury This house was featured in, I believe, Connecticut Curiosities several years ago and was deemed "an out of place Star Wars House." The authors (one of whom I know) were probably just parroting what someone from Salisbury told them, as I'm sure that town can be pretty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses Tagged With: Cool Architecture, Fairfield County, Modern Architecture, Private Residences, Salisbury

Gaylordsville Spite House

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Gaylordsville Spite House

Having Your Cake (House) and Saying Eat It Too Gaylordsville Section of New Milford November 12, 2011 2018 Update: See comments below - October 2018 I just was given a tour of the house that is being renovated by a local mason worker who now owns it. What a fabulous house, He installed high end new windows and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses Tagged With: Dubious Claims, folk architecture, Litchfield County, New Milford, Private Residences, Spite Houses

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