It’s that time of year! The holidays and historic homes go together like Mr. and Mrs. Claus and organizations across New England and beyond host annual holiday house tours to showcase special homes and their holiday decorating style. For the first time last year I attended the The Friends of the Mark Twain House &…
Having lived in West Hartford for over twenty years now and due to my more recent pastime of photographing homes, I have become familiar with many sections of town. One of my favorite spots is a little jewel of a neighborhood called the West Hill Drive Historic District. I’ll never forget the first time I discovered…
Just a short twenty-minute ride from my current hometown of West Hartford lies Old Wethersfield, CT which has the distinction of being the largest historic district in the state with over 1,100 contributing structures. The area was settled in 1634 and by some counts is the first settlement in the state (there is some debate over that!)…
Here we are! Thursday Doors. But wait, it’s Friday you say? Why yes it is. And it’s also 2:30 p.m., not an optimal time to post. But I worked so hard on this that I just couldn’t wait!
First time visitors to the National Historic Landmark Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT are in for a delightful treat. You realize you are headed someplace special as soon as you turn down the long and winding driveway on to the 152-acre property. Stone walls and rows of trees border the drive, and as you come around the bend at the…
Do you ever have that feeling that you were supposed to meet someone? Because if not for a random series of events you never would have met them? That’s how I feel about Jen Mooney. Jen lives in West Hartford in an adorable Cape with her even more adorable dachshunds, Henry and Kiki. A lot…
