Thank you for a wonderful 2024 season!

Your Home for History

Connecticut Landmarks is a state-wide network of historic house museums sharing 400 years of New England history. Our museums are starting points for deeper exploration and greater appreciation of the Connecticut experience. Our real-life stories, as told through our houses, collections, and programs, make history matter.

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Your Home for History

Connecticut Landmarks is a state-wide network of historic house museums spanning 400 years of New England history. Our museums are starting points for deeper exploration and greater appreciation of the Connecticut experience. Our real-life stories, as told through our houses, collections, and programs, make history matter.

Plan your visit today »

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Thank You for an Amazing 2024 Season!

2024 was an exciting season of educational programming, engaging events, and preservation efforts that brought people from near and far to begin their conversation with history at our historic sites. Our seven historic house museums are starting points for deeper exploration and greater appreciation of the Connecticut experience. We welcome you to read our 2024 annual report to learn about all we have done this year and how you can support opportunities to help connect people to history! We can’t wait to welcome you back next season for events (new and returning favorites), programs, field trips, and house tours.

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Support a Cause Close to Home This Giving Tuesday

At Connecticut Landmarks, home is where the history happens. Our ability to encourage visitors to find their home in history through programming, preservation, and education is only possible because of talented staff, dedicated Trustees, enthusiastic volunteers, loyal members, generous donors, and passionate community partners, who appreciate the significance of learning from the places that shaped our state—and us. We hope you will enjoy the video above featuring some of the amazing people across our historic sites who create the experiences you love.

During the next 24 hours, people around the world will come together to participate in a global day of giving – Giving Tuesday. You can help us meet our goal of raising $5,ooo this Giving Tuesday and become a part of our organization’s legacy!

Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated and go a long way in ensuring that we can continue to:

Expand our high-quality programs and tours emphasizing how people in the past worked, raised families, prepared food, used their voices to create change, and built lives in Connecticut
Welcome new generations of students on field trips where they experience history firsthand
Steward the structures and collections integral to the stories we share

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Making Music Together at the Isham-Terry House!

Enjoy an afternoon’s vocal and instrumental performance at Hartford’s Isham-Terry House by Andrew Wilcox (piano) and Mae Czuba (vocals) to hear the late-19th and early-20th century songs that would have filled the Ishams’ parlor, drawing upon the sheet music in the Isham-Terry collection and representing the lives and interests of the household’s amateur musicians. The performers will play music from the collection, and sheet music will be on display during the event! This event will be held on Sunday, November 10th from 2 pm-3 pm.

The artwork pictured is from the covers of the early 20th century sheet music from the Isham Family collection. “The Angle Worm Wiggle” cover features Sophie Tucker, known as “The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas,” who grew up in Hartford and paved the way for other female performers.

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You are invited to join a community of people finding inspiration in our state’s heritage. Membership support is the foundation of Connecticut Landmarks and your gateway to exploring Connecticut history. Experience the richness of all of our historic properties as often as you wish; choose from more than 85 programs, special events, and behind-the-scenes tours each season; and enjoy discounts on program tickets and in our museum stores.

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Join us!

You are invited to join a community of people finding inspiration in our state’s heritage. Membership support is the foundation of Connecticut Landmarks and your gateway to exploring Connecticut history. Experience the richness of all of our historic properties as often as you wish; choose from more than 85 programs, special events, and behind-the-scenes tours each season; and enjoy discounts on program tickets and in our museum stores.

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Upcoming Programs & Events

Sold Out! Holiday Lantern Tours

December 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Sold Out! Holiday Lantern Tours

December 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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Making History Together

Capture authentic New England charm when you host your next social event at one of Connecticut Landmarks’ historic houses and gardens. Each exquisite property creates the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable occasion. Now booking 2025 weddings and 2024 events!

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Make Your Own History

Capture authentic New England charm when you host your next social event at one of Connecticut Landmarks’ historic houses and gardens. Each exquisite property creates the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable occasion. Now booking 2025 weddings and 2024 events!

Facility Rental Details »

Preservation Updates

Conservation Work on Phelps-Hatheway House’s Parlor Wallpaper

Studio TKM Associates were back on site in the Phelps-Hatheway House’s parlor. The team of conservators continue to re-adhere separated pieces of the wallpaper and to treat the room’s exterior corners. Paper in these narrow spaces are subject to trapped moisture, compromised air flow, and uneven light. Studio TKM Associates worked to fill numerous cracks and to mitigate damage to the inpainting completed in the 1960’s. Thanks to their fine treatment, the paper’s colors shine brightly and vulnerable areas will be protected for many years.

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Fence Restoration Progress at Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden

Restoration work is underway on the south section of the Phelps-Hatheway fence! Possibly created for Sumner Fuller in the 1920’s, the Neo-classical picket fence with decorative post toppers will receive repairs and be power washed, primed, and repainted. Thanks to the generous support of the 1772 Foundation in cooperation with Preservation Connecticut, as well as of the Town of Suffield, we are able to undertake this important preservation project.

Connecticut Landmarks has contracted the expertise of Kronenberger & Sons Restoration for this project. Their team has removed some of the toppers and will reconstruct them over the winter. Others will be repaired in situ. Check back to our website and social media pages for progress! We hope you’ll enjoy watching the project unfold as you walk or drive by.

The first image shows the fence line in the late 19th century before Sumner’s exquisite remake!

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