Historic Preservation

Architect Kevin Roche, Shaping Environments
By Robert Gregson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2022 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In the documentary…

Site Lines: Russian Village
By Stacey Vairo (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A small group…

Kids’ Page: Saving a Bridge with Flowers
Saving a Bridge with Flowers 130 years ago Simsbury got a new bridge. The old…

The Olmsteds Design a Park for Bridgeport
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Connecticut’s Arched & Rusticated Bridges
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The Intense Light of Stamford’s First Presbyterian Church
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Craftsmanship in Two Connecticut Landmarks
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Pretty in Pink in Stony Creek
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Preserving Fairfield’s Sun Tavern with the Freemasons
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Hartford Gets Its First Skycrapers
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William Lanson, An Artisan Who Built Beyond Structures
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Bridgeport’s Monumental Bronze Company
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From Modest Materials, A Grand Effect
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Spring 2022 All photos courtesy of John Canning…

Site Lines: Preserving What We Can’t See
By Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! What do the…

Restoring East Granby’s Smallpox Cemetery
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Destination: Eli Whitney Barn
By Todd Levine (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut’s own Eli…

The Lockwoods’ Opulent Elm Park
By Mimi Findlay (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1863, while…

Site Lines: The Innovation of Palliser, Palliser & Company
By Emily Clark (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Driving through Bridgeport, one sees a…

The Height of Fashion in Funerary Art
By Beverly Lucas (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Established in 1864,…

Building Art of Clay
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1882…

Stowe’s Victorian Home For Our Time
By Briann Greenfield with Beth Burgess (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…
Can We See The Kitchen?
By Melanie Anderson Bourbeau (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As just…

New Discoveries at Battle Site Essex
By Jerry Roberts (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! READ AS A…

Eugene O’Neill: New London’s Monte Cristo Cottage
By Emily Bloom-Shufrin, Sophie Gandler, and Matt Levy (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Subscribe/Buy…

Mystic Seaport’s Charles W. Morgan Sails Again
By Matthew Stackpole (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2013 Though built and launched in New…

Gores Pavilion for the Arts in Irwin Park, New Canaan
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Quonset Huts & Nike Missile Bases: Connecticut History Hidden in Plain Site
By David K. Leff (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Little that…

Preserving Dixwell in New Haven as a Model
By Christopher Wigren (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! New Haven’s Dixwell…

Mine Hill and the Lost Village of Chalybes
By Alexander Dubois (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mine Hill in…

Ed Logue and Urban Renewal in New Haven
By Lizabeth Cohen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. This story is adapted from Saving America’s Cities: Ed…

Norwich’s Millionaires’ Triangle
By Tricia Staley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A vice president…

Seeking Racial Equity in Norwalk’s Village Creek
By Natalie Belanger (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A small…

Site Lines: Constance Baker Motley’s Chester Retreat
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Visually Breathtaking Hartford Explored
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The American Factory Village—Made in Connecticut
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Site Lines: Rocky River Hydroelectric Plant
By Christopher Wigren (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2021 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! This story expands…

Soldiers’ Field in Hartford
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. 2003 Nov/Dec/Jan 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On Armistice Day (November 11)…

Civil War: Memorials to a Nation Preserved
By Matthew Warshauer and Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Site Lines: The Black Church in Connecticut — Fortresses of Faith, Agents of Change
By Mary M. Donohue and Whitney Bayers (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2011 Subscribe/Buy the…

Site Lines: Silas Deane House
By Linda Pagliuco (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2011/2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When British General…

Beauty in a Gravestone
By Linda Pagliuco All photos by Linda Pagliuco (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2010/2011 Subscribe/Buy…

Site Lines: The Making of the Henry Whitfield House Museum
By Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2010-2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In recent years,…

Faith Amidst the Fields: Connecticut’s Country Synagogues
Text by Mary M. Donohue and photography by Robert Gregson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter…

Connecticut’s Top 10 Public Sculptures
By Ann Harrison and Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2006/2007 Subscribe/Buy the…

Sites Underwater Worth Preserving, Too
By Nicholas F. Bellantoni and David A. Poirier (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy…

Connecticut State Library: George Godard Gets His Building
By Kendall F. Wiggin (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! November 28,…

Waterbury: Three Generations in the Newspaper Business
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The Danbury Square Box Company
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Lustron: Metal Homes for the Atomic Age
By Stacey Vairo (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2009/2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A visitor to…

The Modernism of Hill-Stead’s Theodate Pope
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Destinations: Louis Kahn Buildings at Yale
By Patrick Pinnell (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2006/2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! From the western…

Longer Lasting than Brass: Waterbury’s City Hall Restored
By Robert W. Grzywacz (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I knew…

Glamour and Purpose in New Haven’s Union Station
By Robert W. Grzywacz (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! It’s a…

Adam Jackson’s Story Revealed
By Cynthia Cormier (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Joshua Hempsted…

The Suspicious Colt Armory Fire
By Herbert G. Houze (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Colt…

Destination: The Warner & Palace Theaters
Two Connecticut theaters listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designed by renowned…

The Litchfield Congregational Meetinghouse
by Rachel D. Carley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2005/2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Often cited…

The Spirit of Miss Florence Restored
By Liz Farrow (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2005/2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! All photos courtesy…

Women at Work: Architect, Executive, Laborer, Preservationist
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Hill-Stead Museum By Melanie Anderson Bourbeau…

Destination: Ingalls Rink and the Yale Bowl
By Patrick Pinnell (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For structures designed…

Historic Preservation: Better the Second Time Around
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Well-built buildings,…

Saving Mark Twain’s House
By Steve Courtney (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 READ AS A PDF Subscribe/Buy the…

Suffield: A Town of Farms
By Laura Dillman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As a tie-in…

Site Lines: Connecticut’s Freedom Trail
By Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc, Winter 2012-2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Read as a…

Hartford Then and Now
By Nancy O. Albert, Tomas J. Nenortas, and Karen O’Maxfield (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter…

National Historic Preservation Act: 40 and Fabulous
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2005/2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Introduction As I prepared to enter…

Destination: Cheney Hall
A music hall for silk mill workers returns to its roots (c) Connecticut Explored Inc.…

Hill-Stead: A Colonial Revival Performance
A Curator-to-Curator Conversation (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2002 Subscribe/Purchases Back Issues! Hill-Stead Museum in…

Site Lines: The Eric Sloane Museum Celebrates Craftsmanship
By Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2013-2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Labor in an…

12,500-Year-Old Paleoindian Site Discovered
By Sarah P. Sportman and David E. Leslie (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy…

The Pine Grove Spiritualist Camp
By Elaine M. Kuzmeskus (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Spiritualism began…

A New Life for the Merwinsville Hotel
By Alexander Dubois (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Transit-oriented development, which…

Bridgeport’s Crystal Palace: The Bishop Arcade
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A Victorian…

The Charms of Boothe Memorial Park
By Johnna Kaplan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! High on a…

Meet Preservation Connecticut
By Christopher Wigren (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Editor’s note: “Connecticut…

Connecticut’s Green Book Sites
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Throughout the…

Slave Quarters in Bush-Holley House
By Debra Mecky (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Between 1998 and…

The Head and the Heart of King-lui Wu, Architect
By Robert Gregson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Architect King-lui Wu…

Eliot Noyes, Design Pioneer
By Robert Gregson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! You might be…

The Reinvention of The New Haven Clock Company Factory
By Jason Bischoff-Wurstle (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As the transformative…

A Family of Reformers: The Middletown Bemans
By Liz Warner (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2008/2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! More than a…

Site Lines: John Rogers Jr. , the People’s Sculptor
By Nancy Geary (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! John Rogers Jr.…

The Swift Factory Shines Again
By Kerri A. Provost (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Forty years…

Philip Johnson’s 50-Year Experiment in Architecture and Landscape
By Gwen North Reiss (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Architect Philip…

Spring 2020: Give Me a Sign! Neon & Ghost Signs We Love
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Perhaps…

Spring 2020: Historic Preservation Outside the Box
Spring 2020 VOLUME 18/NUMBER 2 SUBSCRIBE NOW ORDER ONLINE Connecticut Explored CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ONE GOOD…

Site Lines: A Love Story at the Palmer-Warner House
By Erin Farley (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! As the…

Caroline Ferriday and her Infinitely Generous Family
By Martha Hall Kelly (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! What makes…

Unburying Hartford’s Native and African Family Histories
By Katherine A. Hermes (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! On any…

Site Lines: Grave Deeds and Abandoned Cemeteries
By Catherine Labadia (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In states across…
The Federal Government and Redlining in Connecticut
by Jack Dougherty (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! What explains the…

Cover Story: Childe Hassam and the Burkes of Cos Cob
By Susan G. Larkin (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! During a…

Morton Plant Adopts Groton
By Gail Braccidiferro MacDonald (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Morton F.…

Louise Comfort Tiffany in New London
ByTanya Pohrt © Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2018-2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue Louis Comfort Tiffany was…

Site Lines: Connecticut’s Octagon Houses
By Daniel Sterner © Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2018-2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue In the middle…

Connecticut’s Old State House: Where the Constitution of 1818 Was Born
By Jacob Orcutt (c) Connecticut Explored Inc, Fall 2018 SUBCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! Connecticut’s Old State…

Destination: Connecticut’s Old State House
By Eileen Flynn (c) Connecticut Explored Aug/Sep/Oct 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! If not for the…

Saving Face: The Hartford Times Building
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! Façadectomy: The…

Rediscovering the Oldest House in Greenwich
By Christopher P. Franco (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! In July…

Preserving Houses of Worship
By Frank Hagaman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! How are historic…

Bringing Back “Restmore,” Home of Dr. Ira DeVer Warner
By David K. Sturges (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! When Ellen…

Harry Holtzman and Hadlyme’s Grand Barn
By Carolyn Wakeman (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! The size and…

Connecticut’s Wright-Designed “Running Waters”
By Robert Gregson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! In the early…

Frederick Law Olmsted in Connecticut
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Connecticut Architecture Explored
By Christopher Wigren (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! Christopher Wigren’s forthcoming…

Order Your House From a Catalog
By Rachel Shoemaker (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE! Between 1906 and…

Philip Johnson In His Own Words
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2009-2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The Philip Johnson…

Modernism in Connecticut
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Connecticut history revealed down a long driveway, under 10 feet of water, and in a barn
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE I’m a…

Two Controversial Connecticut Statues: Standing … At Least for Now
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 With all the recent talk…

Love/Hate for Connecticut’s Brutalist Buildings
By Christopher Wigren (c) Connecticut Explored Winter 2017-2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! What sane architect would…

Site Lines–Finding “Isabel”
By Nicholas DeLong (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! On the night…

Spring 2018: Preservation Detective Stories
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Site Lines: Connecticut’s World War I Memorials
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Site Lines: Birdcraft
By Elizabeth Rose (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2017 SUBSCRIBE/Buy the Issue One of the…

Three Thriving Historic General Stores
By Johnna Kaplan (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 19th-century New…

Where Mr. Twain and Mrs. Stowe Built Their Dream Houses
by Elizabeth J Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! When Mark…

Historic Main Streets Matter
by John Simone (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A few years…

City, Country, Town: Connecticut Landmarks
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Three historic sites owned by Connecticut…

Connecticut’s Park and Forest Pioneers
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The Cheney Company Housing Auction of 1937
by Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Mill towns…

Destination: The Living 9/11 Memorial
By Nicole Chalfant (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2011 SUBSCRIBE/Buy the Issue! On September 11, 2001,…

Weir Farm National Historic Site
By Christopher Gezon (c) Connecticut Explored Inc,. SUMMER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In June 1882,…

Destination: The Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden
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Stonington: Poet James Merrill’s House
by Charles T. Clark (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Hear a…

Soapbox: Preserving the Meritt Parkway
By Leigh Grant (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! To drive along…

Waste Not Want Not: What a Colonial Midden Can Tell Us
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Cedar Hill Cemetery: More than just a Resting Place for the Dead
By Irene McHugh (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Travel south on…

Saint Justin’s Church: Architect John McMahon’s Plans for an “American Perpendicular” Catholic Church
by Joseph P. McMahon (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! For 40…

The Kent Iron Furnace
by Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. FALL 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Museum artifacts come…

A Little Town Begets a Big College
By Walter W. Woodward (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2016 In early 1735 the village…

Escape From New-Gate Prison
by Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Three pounds Reward…

A Hip Road Trip
by Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2009/2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “The Berlin…

The Quarry That Built Boston and New York City
by Doe Boyle (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! A paddler making…

James Pharmacy
By Andra Chantim (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Down Old Saybrook’s…

Making a Success of Coltsville
by William Hosley WINTER 2005/06 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! My passion for Coltsville, the 19th-century Hartford…

Faith Congregational Church: 185 Years–Same People, Same Purpose
By Tamara Verrett (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1819, a…

Enfield’s Shaker Legacy
by Mike Miller (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Who were the…

Cheney Mills: Life in a Mill Town
by Mary Dunne (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! An employee of the…

Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces
Text by Suzanne Mittica Photos selected by Nancy O. Albert SPRING 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue From…

The Butler-McCook House
By David F. Ransom WINTER 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The extraordinary value of the…

A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise & Fall of Public Housing
By Nancy O. Albert (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. WINTER 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Public housing…

Site Lines: Making Places
By Sarajane Cedrone (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2015-2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Nestled in a corner…

Site Lines: Housing Factory Workers in World War I
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014-2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1917 the…

Site Lines: The Hannah Gray Home
By Sarajane Cedrone (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2015 Hannah Gray took advantage of the limited work…

Connecticut’s Carnegie Libraries
By Mary M. Donohue with Kory Mills (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2015 Steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie…

Jews in Hartford: Making Their Presence Known
By Marsha Lotstein, Photos selected by Nancy O. Albert (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2005…

The Genius of Connecticut: Give Her Wings!
By Matthew Warshauer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Randolph Roger’s winged…

The Forlorn Soldier
By Anthony Roy and Matthew Warshauer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…

Saving Hartford’s Amos Bull House
By Karin Peterson (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Against the backdrop of…

Hebrew Tillers of the Soil
by Mary Donohue and Kenneth Libo, M.D. (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2006 Subscribe/Buy the…

Carry Me Across the Water: Our Historic Bridges
By Mary M. Donohue with Bruce Clouette (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2015 Subscribe/Buy the…

Connecticut’s Mount Rushmore Connection
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. SPRING 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! John Gutzon…

Connecticut as a Magnet for Modern Artists
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Summer 2015 VOLUME 13/NUMBER 3
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Seaside: Sun & Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis
Sun and Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis The history of Seaside By Ann Harrison with…

State Archaeologist on 30 Years of Great Finds
(c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! By Nicholas F. Bellantoni READ AS A…
Why Connecticut Didn’t Go Dutch
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The Next Wave of Historic Preservation – Spring 2013
Stories about the next wave of historic preservation in Connecticut are explored in the Spring…
Appreciate Historic Connecticut By Bike!
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of…
Modernism & The Austin House
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2009/2010 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! If you’re…
Fire! A Threat and a Resource
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! After wandering…
Architectural Treasures Saved, Threatened, and Demolished
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2005/2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Some themes…

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