Historic Preservation

August 15, 2024

Results of the John Mason Monument Survey

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May 31, 2024

Connecticut and the Civil War: Monuments to Emancipation, and Not . . .

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May 31, 2024

Courage and Camaraderie Under the Arch

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March 1, 2024

Collection Connections in the Digital Age

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

Hog River Journal: What the Heck Is Digital History?

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March 1, 2024

Site Lines: Meet ConnCRIS!

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March 1, 2024

Preserving and Revitalizing Connecticut Churches Through 3D Tour Technology

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March 1, 2024

The Veterans History Project on the Connecticut Digital Archive

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March 1, 2024

Assembling the Puzzle Pieces: The Unionist Unified, Prudence Crandall, and the Canterbury Female Academy

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March 1, 2024

From an Underground Prison to the Boundless Sea: Using Digital Tools to Trace the Lives of New-Gate

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May 17, 2022

Architect Kevin Roche, Shaping Environments

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

Site Lines: Russian Village

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

Kids’ Page: Saving a Bridge with Flowers

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

The Olmsteds Design a Park for Bridgeport

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 […]
February 25, 2022

Connecticut’s Arched & Rusticated Bridges

By Michael S. Raber (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Masonry-arch bridge construction is an ancient design, but the form was not common in Connecticut until the mid-19th century, due to a […]
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