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Salmon Brook Historical Society; Samuel Huntington Birthplace; Shaw Mansion (New London, Connecticut) Silas Deane House; Sloan-Raymond-Fitch House; Smith–Harris House (East Lyme, Connecticut) Jabez Smith House; Solomon Goffe House; Stanley-Whitman House; Stanton–Davis Homestead Museum; William Jillson Stone House; Harrison House Museum
Connecticut Landmarks is a non-profit organization that has restored and operates significant historic house museums in Connecticut. Headquartered in Hartford , Connecticut, the organization was founded in 1936 as the Antiquarian & Landmarks Society.
This list of museums in Connecticut contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Bowering restored the house and lived there until she sold it in 1968 to William Shocket and Charles Goodstein. The new owners donated the property, house, and furnishings to the Tolland Historical Society on December 13, 1969. The house opened as a museum the following year. [2] It is open for tours on Sundays from June through September. [1]
The Hatheway House, also known as the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden is a historic house museum at 55 South Main Street in Suffield, Connecticut. The sprawling house has sections built as early as 1732, with significant alterations made in 1795 to a design by Asher Benjamin for Oliver Phelps, a major land speculator. The house provides a window ...
The Thankful Arnold House Museum is an American historic house museum in Haddam, Connecticut. It consists of a gambrel -roofed house built circa 1800, along with a garden and grounds. [ 1 ] The museum is open year-round.
The house was acquired by Connecticut Landmarks in 1937, [2] which operates it and the adjacent 1759 Nathaniel Hempstead House as a historic house museum complex known as the Hempsted Houses. The houses have been restored to reflect a late 17th to mid 18th-century appearance, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
The Bush–Holley House is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 39 Strickland Road in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut.It was constructed circa 1730 and in the late nineteenth century was a boarding house and the center of the Cos Cob Art Colony, Connecticut's first art colony.