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Amasa Day House
- 860-247-8996
- 33 Plains Rd, Moodus, CT, USA
The house is furnished largely with objects owned by members of the Day family, including toys and locally produced ceramics… Read More
Boothe Memorial Park & Museum
- 203-381-2068
- 5800 Main St, Stratford, CT, USA
Boothe Memorial Park & Museum sits on an idyllic, 32 acre site in the north end of Stratford by the… Read More
Bush-Holley Historic Site
- 203-869-6899
- 39 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT, USA
The circa 1730 structure began life as a home for prosperous merchants and gained recognition later as a boarding house… Read More
Butler-McCook House & Garden
- 860-522-1806
- 396 Main St, Hartford, CT, USA
For 189 years the Butler-McCook House & Garden was home to four generations of a family who participated in, witnessed,… Read More
Christopher Leffingwell House Historic Museum
- 860-889-9440
- 348 Washington Street, Norwich, CT, USA
The Christopher Leffingwell House Museum is considered one of the finest restored examples of New England's Colonial Architecture. Displayed within… Read More
Danbury Museum & Historical Society
- 203-743-5200
- 43 Main Street, Danbury, CT, USA
The museum consists of the 1785 Rider House which contains period furnishings; textile and historical exhibits, the 1790 Dodd Hat… Read More
Denison Homestead Museum
- 860-536-9248
- 120 Pequotsepos Road, Mystic, CT, USA
Built in 1717, this colonial post and beam structure is located 5 minutes from downtown Mystic on 160 of the… Read More
Florence Griswold Museum
- 860-434-5542
- 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT, USA
The House is a National Historic Landmark. Designed by Samuel Belcher, architect of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme,… Read More
General David Humphreys House
- 203-735-1908
- 37 Elm St, Ansonia, CT, USA
The David Humphreys house is where our nations first ambassador to a forign country lived. David Humphreys served on George… Read More
Gillette Castle State Park
- 860-526-2336
- 67 River Road, East Haddam, CT, USA
Atop the most southerly hill in a chain known as the Seven Sisters, William Hooker Gillette, noted actor, director, and… Read More
Glebe House Museum and The Gertrude Jekyll Garden
- 203-263-2855
- 49 Hollow Road, Woodbury, CT, USA
The house was built about 1750 and is an architecturally interesting and unusual combination of gambrel and saltbox roof styles.… Read More
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
- 860-522-9258
- 77 Forest St, Hartford, CT, USA
A visit to the Stowe Center begins with the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, a charming Victorian Gothic Revival home (1871),… Read More
Harrison House Museum & Barn
- 203-488-4828
- 124 Main St, Branford, CT, USA
Built by Nathaniel Harrison in 1724 as a "two over two"" house and occupied by his family and descendants until… Read More
Hart House and Gardens
- 860-395-1635
- 350 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT, USA
Built more than two centuries ago in 1767 for his bride, Esther Buckingham, the General William Hart house is one… Read More
Hatheway House
- 203-247-8996
- 55 South Main Street, Suffield, CT, USA
Shaded by a 300-year-old sycamore tree, the Hatheway House provides a glimpse of 18th century life. The main block of… Read More
Hempsted Houses
- 860-443-7949
- 11 Hempstead Street, New London, CT, USA
The Hempsted Houses comprises two buildings: the 1678 Joshua Hempsted House and the 1759 Nathaniel Hempsted House. The Joshua Hempsted… Read More
Henry Whitfield State Museum
- 203-453-2457
- 248 Old Whitfield Street, Guilford, CT, USA
The Whitfield family home also served as a fort for the community. Its massive stone walls and chimneys, steeply-pitched roof,… Read More
Hill-Stead Museum
- 860-677-4787
- 36 Mountain Road, Windsor, CT, USA
The 152-acre property features an Arts and Crafts carriage barn and theater, stone garages, woodland trails, a pond and dairy… Read More
Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum
- 860-482-8260
- 192 Main St, Torrington, CT, USA
Perhaps most impressive to visitors is the quantity and quality of the millwork that can be seen throughout this residence.… Read More
Hurlbut-Dunham House
- 860-529-7656
- 212 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, USA
Built in 1790s in the Georgian style, the house was occupied in 1804 by Captain John Hurlbut, a successful mariner… Read More
Hyland House
- 203-453-9477
- 845 Boston Street, Guilford, CT, USA
The Hyland House, a museum of early colonial life and architecture, was built circa 1690-1710. Scheduled for demolition in 1916,… Read More
Jonathan Trumbull Jr. House Museum
- 860-642-6579
- 780 Trumbull Highway, Lebanon, CT, USA
Jonathan Trumbull Junior's Georgian-style house was probably built sometime in the early 1760s by his father, Jonathan Trumbull Sr. Jonathan… Read More
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
A National Historic Landmark since 1971, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is regarded as one of the earliest and most significant… Read More
Monte Cristo Cottage
- 860-443-5378
- 325 Pequot Avenue, New London, CT, USA
The Monte Cristo Cottage was the boyhood summer home of Eugene O'Neill from 1900 until 1917, when he began supporting… Read More
Nathan Hale Homestead
- 860-742-6917
- 2299 South Street, Coventry, CT, USA
The Nathan Hale Homestead was the home of the family of State Hero, Nathan Hale. Constructed in 1776, the current… Read More
New Canaan Historical Society
- 203-966-1776
- 13 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, CT, USA
The society has 5 buildings open including the 1764 Hanford-Silliman House Museum, and the Town House which contains a costume… Read More
Noah Webster House
- 860-521-5362
- 227 S Main St, West Hartford, CT, USA
Webster's birthplace helps to tell the story of one man's vision and his impact on American culture. Through the promotion… Read More
Osborne Homestead Museum
- 203-734-2513
- 500 Hawthorne Avenue, Derby, CT, USA
Adjacent to the rolling hills and open meadows of Osbornedale State Park, the recently renovated Osborne Homestead Museum encompasses the… Read More
Pardee Morris House
Built by Amos Morris around 1750, the house was burned by the British during their raid on New Haven in… Read More
Phelps Tavern
- 860-658-2500
- 800 Hopmeadow Street, Simsbury, CT, USA
The Phelps house and tavern was owned by five generations of the Phelps family for nearly two hundred years. The… Read More
Pratt House Museum
- 860-767-681
- 19 West Ave, Essex, CT, USA
Seven generations of the Pratt family lived here continously from 1701 until 1915. Originally built in 1701 by John Pratt… Read More
Putnam Cottage
- 203-869-9697
- 243 East Putnam Avenue, Greenwich, CT, USA
This bright red house on the Boston Post Road has had a long and colorful history. It was originally built… Read More
Roseland Cottage
- 860-928-4074
- 556 Connecticut 169, Woodstock, CT, USA
Built in 1846 in the newly fashionable Gothic Revival style, Roseland Cottage depicts the summer life of Henry and Lucy… Read More
Shaw Mansion
- 860-443-1209
- 11 Blinman Street, New London, CT, USA
The wealthy merchant, Captain Nathaniel Shaw, began building the granite mansion in the 1750s with the help of French refugees… Read More
Stone-Otis House
- 203-795-3106
- 615 Orange Center Road, Orange, CT, USA
The Stone-Otis House, ca. 1830, was built by Sarah and Dennis Stone. This house represents one of the finest old… Read More
The Barnes Museum
- 860-628-5426
- 85 N Main St, Southington, CT, USA
Displays of historic diaries, photographs, periodicals, clothing and other items are featured in this house. Framed in solid oak, the… Read More
The Huntington Homestead
- 860-456-8381
- 36 Huntington Road, Scotland, CT, USA
The house where Samuel Huntington was born and raised was built for his father about 1723. It was two stories… Read More
The Judson House
- 203-378-630
- 967 Academy Hill, Stratford, CT, USA
Built circa 1750 by Capt. David Judson on the site of his great-grandfather's 1639 stone house, Judson House is a… Read More
The Mark Twain House & Museum
- 860-247-998
- 351 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT, USA
The Mark Twain House & Museum, a National Historic Landmark in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of America’s greatest author,… Read More
The Reeve House and Litchfield Law School
- 860-567-4501
- 82 South Street, Litchfield, CT, USA
In 1773, the newly married Tapping Reeve and Sally Burr Reeve settled in Litchfield where Reeve promptly established a legal… Read More
The Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill
- 860-347-1064
- 421 Wadsworth St, Middletown, CT, USA
The New York architecture firm of Hoppin and Koen designed a domain on a par with the estates of Lenox,… Read More
Thomas Griswold House Museum
Besides the 1774 Thomas Griswold House Museum and the 1803 Medad Stone Tavern, the Society maintains an early blacksmith shop,… Read More
Topsmead State Forest
- 860-567-5694
- Buell Road, Litchfield, CT, USA
In 1917, Miss Chase received from her father approximately 16 acres on Jefferson Hill in Litchfield. Here she built a… Read More
Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, owned and managed by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of… Read More
Windsor Historical Society Museum
- 860-688-3813
- 96 Palisado Avenue, Windsor, CT, USA
The 1758 John and Sarah Strong House and the 1765 Dr. Hezekiah Chaffe House have changing exhibits. Read More












































