SPRING 2022

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 […]
February 25, 2022

The Intense Light of Stamford’s First Presbyterian Church

By Wes Haynes (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Stamford’s First Presbyterian Church building committee did not set out in 1952 to break new ground with one of New England’s first mid-century […]
February 24, 2022

Pretty in Pink in Stony Creek

By Mary Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Stony Creek granite is one of Connecticut’s most sought-after building materials, one that represents the height of craftsmanship in some of the country’s […]
February 24, 2022

Preserving Fairfield’s Sun Tavern with the Freemasons

By James W. D’Acosta (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On the moonlit evening of November 15, 2012, Freemasons met at Sun Tavern for the first time in more than 200 years, […]
February 23, 2022

Hartford Gets Its First Skycrapers

By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022  Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Donn Barber (1871 – 1925), a New York City architect, could be called the “Father of Hartford Skyscrapers.” He designed Hartford’s first […]
February 23, 2022

Bridgeport’s Monumental Bronze Company

By Carolyn Ivanoff (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The great age of American monumentation began after the Civil War and continued into the early 20th century, as Matthew Warshauer and Mary […]
February 23, 2022

From Modest Materials, A Grand Effect

By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Spring 2022 All photos courtesy of John Canning & Co. Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When I was a tiny child sitting in hard oak church pews on Sunday mornings, […]
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