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Gardens and House Museums

Elizabeth Park Rose
Roseland Cottage
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Gardens
Bowen House
MAP D4 • 556 Rte 169, Woodstock MAP C4 • Prospect Ave, Hartford •
• 860 928 4074 • Open Jun–mid Open daily • www.elizabethparkct.org
Oct: Wed–Sun • Adm • www.historic In June, plants burst into bloom
newengland.org here, the US’s oldest municipal
This pink, Gothic-style cottage was rose garden.
the summer getaway for the wealthy
Hill-Stead Museum
Bowen family of New York. 6
MAP C4 • 35 Mountain Rd,
Farmington • 860 677 4787 • Closed
Mon • Adm • www.hillstead.org
This hilltop estate is an aristocratic
world of privilege and elegance.
Glebe House Museum &
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Gertrude Jekyll Garden
MAP B5 • 49 Hollow Rd, Woodbury
• 203 263 2855 • Open May–Oct:
Wed–Sun • Adm • www.glebehouse
museum.org
This 1750 home has the only US
garden created by famed British
Bush-Holley Historic Site designer Gertrude Jekyll.
Bush-Holley Historic Site
Lockwood-Mathews
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Mansion Museum
MAP A6 • 39 Strickland Rd, Cos
Cob • 203 869 6899 • Open Wed–Sun MAP B6 • 295 West Ave, Norwalk
(Jan–Feb: Sat–Sun) • Adm by guided • 203 838 9799 • Open Apr–Jan:
tour • www.hstg.org Wed–Sun • Adm • www.lockwood
This interesting museum pinpoints mathewsmansion.com
two revolutions in Cos Cob: the Decorative excesses abound at this
political upheaval of the 1770s and estate, built for a wealthy banker
the artistic ferment of American and railroad tycoon.
Impressionism, 125 years later. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Center
Bartlett Arboretum
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MAP C4 • 77 Forest St, Hartford
MAP A6 • 151 Brookdale Rd,
Stamford • 203 322 6971 • Open daily • 860 522 9258 • Open daily (Jan–
• www.bartlettarboretum.org Mar: closed Tue) • Adm • www.
Woodlands, wetlands, meadows, harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
and formal gardens make a living Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
museum of 850 specimen trees. moved here, her last home, in 1873.
Florence Griswold
Bellamy-Ferriday House
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& Garden
Museum
MAP D5 • 96 Lyme St, Old Lyme MAP B4 • 9 Main St N, Bethlehem
• 860 434 5542 • Closed Mon • Adm • 203 266 7596 • Open May–Sep:
• www.florencegriswoldmuseum.org Fri–Mon; Oct: Sat–Sun • Adm
View the history of American • www.ctlandmarks.org
Impressionism at this former rooming Built for a legendary preacher in
house, where artist-boarders painted the 18th century, the final owner
more than 40 panels on the walls. was a civil rights activist.
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