Historic Preservation
March 1, 2025
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August 15, 2024
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May 31, 2024
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May 31, 2024
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March 1, 2024
By Michael Kemezis and Khalil Quotap The COVID-19 pandemic underscored a need for cultural institutions to provide remote access to primary source collections and prompted a shift in thinking in Connecticut’s cultural sector. More […]
March 1, 2024
By Kathy Hermes When I first heard the term “digital history” 26 years ago, I had little idea how the digital age would transform not only the research we did and how we did it […]
March 1, 2024
By Jenny Scofield, AICP The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is honored to introduce the Connecticut Cultural Resource Information System, our new statewide digital resource. ConnCRIS is an interactive map of historic properties and archaeological […]
March 1, 2024
By Tony Healy Churches are among Connecticut’s most vital cultural landmarks, boasting remarkable historic and artistic significance. Preserving a church’s architectural heritage enhances a congregation’s experience and fulfills a civic need. 3D tours have emerged […]
March 1, 2024
By Brian Matzke When Ethel Smith served as an army nurse at Fort Dix during World War II, one of her most difficult patients was a man with a leg injury who was so angry […]
March 1, 2024
By Jennifer Rycenga and Nick Szydlowski The saga of Prudence Crandall, principal of the Canterbury Female Academy, and the intrepid Black students who, despite legal attacks and vigilante violence, attended the school in 1833–1834 is […]
March 1, 2024
By Glenn W. Falk and Ava C. Caudle On August 20, 1798, a classified ad appeared in The Connecticut Courant: “Run away from the subscriber on the night after the 17th of Aug. inst[ant] a […]
May 17, 2022
By Robert Gregson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the documentary film Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect (2017), architect Robert A.M. Stern describes Kevin Roche as “irresistibly nice.” But nice as […]
March 7, 2022
By Stacey Vairo (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A small group of Russian immigrants who fled to the United States after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 found a new home in […]
February 25, 2022
Saving a Bridge with Flowers 130 years ago Simsbury got a new bridge. The old bridge was made of wood and had become unsafe. The new bridge was built in 1892 of metal. Metal bridges […]
February 25, 2022
By W. Phillips Barlow (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! At the northern end of Bridgeport is a beautiful park that today reads as a well-preserved piece of unspoiled nature. But it […]