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CTMQ > Closed/Gone/Former

Sterling Opera House (Abandoned)

January 25, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

No Ficken Joke Sterling Opera House, Derby I suppose I could have tried to get a personal tour of this place. After all, NBC30 did. So did Atlas Obscura as well as Damned Connecticut. In a way, I consider all three of those outlets peers. I'll also consider them primary source material for this page. Because, as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, derby, New Haven County, theaters

Military Historians Museum (Closed)

September 8, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

They Lost The Battle and the War Westbrook, (Google Maps location) September 2022 The Military Historians Museum closed in January 2018. Very early on in this whole CTMQ thing I do... way back when the focus really was just museums... I "visited" some recently closed museums. This was back in 2009 or so. It was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Middlesex County, Military History, westbrook

Hanging Hills Brewing Company (Closed)

August 29, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hanging in There Hanging Hills Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits Hanging Hills closed in March 2020. Sometimes I am forced to write up a brewery after it closes. And that's never fun. Like right now. This isn't fun. Wait... lemme go grab a fresh Hanging Hills beer out of the fridge to lighten the mood a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Hartford, Hartford County

Garden of Ideas (Closed)

July 19, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

It Was a Good Idea While it Lasted Garden of Ideas, Ridgefield June 2017 The Garden of Ideas Closed in September 2019. Things open. Things close. That's just the way things work in America. However, when some things close, they continue on in some way. I imagine the Garden of Ideas, nestled in a corner of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, Fairfield County, Gardens, Ridgefield

Candlewood Brewing Company (Closed)

July 5, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

A Candle in the Wind Candlewood Brewing Company, New Milford July 2022 Candlewood Brewing closed in July 2022 Talk about a Bad Dream. Candlewood Brewing was one of the shortest-lived Connecticut breweries of the 21st century. It opened in late January 2021 and hung it up in early July 2022; about 16 months. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Litchfield County, New Milford

Fat Orange Cat Brewing (Closed)

April 22, 2022 by Steve 2 Comments

FOC! (It's Closed) Fat Orange Cat Brewing Company, East Hampton Multiple Visits Before Closure FOC was located in a quiet residential section of East Hampton. FOC always closed seasonally. FOC closed to children and pets in September 2019. FOC closed their tasting barn and yard for most of 2020 and 2021. FOC … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, East Hampton, Middlesex County

The Nut Museum

April 7, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

I'd Go to a Nut Theme Park Transient March 2022 Yes! Finally! Back in 2006 when this website had a different name and a far more limited mission, I was bummed that I'd missed out on what was perhaps Connecticut's most famous quirky museum. Today, we have many dozens of similar eccentric little museums - and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Colleges & Universities, transient museums

Salisbury Cannon Museum (Closed)

March 9, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Adding to the Canon Salisbury When I began this website in 2006, the Salisbury Cannon Museum's website was exactly the same as it is in 2022. The same pictures, the same URL, and the same note that it is "currently closed." I don't know about you, but "currently closed" offers hope that it will reopen someday. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Industrial History, Litchfield County, Military History, Salisbury

Veracious Brewing Company (Closed)

February 24, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Pew-Pew Veracious Brewing Company, Monroe April 2016 Veracious Brewing closed at the end of May 2022. I'm going to be as veracious as possible on this page. Not that that's anything new here, but I thought I'd mention it. I'm writing about my one and only 2016 visit to Veracious in... 2022. It has been six … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Fairfield County, Monroe

Huntington House Museum (Closed)

January 8, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Hunting We Will Go... Unfulfilled Windsor Way back in the beginning of CTMQ in 2006, back when it was Connecticut Museum Quest and was solely focused on museums... this museum in Windsor had already (just) closed. I had no chance of ever seeing it for the purposes of this website. Therefore, it falls outside of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Closed/Gone/Former, Hartford County, Windsor

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