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Connecticut Humanities awards $5,000 to Historic New England’s Roseland Cottage to support community programming The Connecticut Cultural Fund helps Connecticut museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations like Roseland Cottage maintain and grow their ability to serve their communities and the public. At Roseland Cottage, this means annually engaging more...
CT Humanities Board of Directors has approved a $5,000 grant for Historic New England’s Roseland Cottage as part of the CT Cultural Fund Operating Support Grants program. The program helps Connecticut museums, cultural, humanities, and arts organizations like Roseland Cottage maintain and grow their ability to serve their communities...
A colorful summer retreat Woodstock, Connecticut Built in 1846 in the newly fashionable Gothic Revival style, Roseland Cottage was the summer home of Henry and Lucy Bowen and their young family. While the house is instantly recognizable for its pink exterior, Roseland Cottage has an equally colorful interior, featuring...
A preservation project on the roof of Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut, is making way for the restoration of two of its notable architectural features: pinnacles and pendants. Roseland Cottage’s distinctiveness transcends the salmon pink color for which the house is most noted locally. Gothic Revival architecture was popularized...
Historic New England’s Roseland Cottage (1846) in Woodstock, Connecticut, recently secured $8,000 from The Barnes Foundation, Inc., to support museum education programs for local schools. The grant provides funds to subsidize transportation and program costs associated with providing local schools with a quality museum experience. Roseland Cottage education programs...
Woodstock, Connecticut Open May Through October Voted best public garden by Connecticut Magazine. Roseland Cottage offers a unique and beautiful setting for weddings and other private parties. From May through October, the flowering trees and perennial gardens are lovely for events held outside or in the Carriage House. Tents...
Experience Victorian exuberance A National Historic Landmark When Henry and Lucy Bowen built Roseland Cottage, a summer home for their growing family, the bold Gothic Revival style they chose contrasted sharply with the other houses on Woodstock’s town green. Bowen was a self-made man and, like many New Englanders...
A distinctive feature of the roof replacement project at Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut, is the return of the shaped shingle. In 1845, Henry Bowen, the business leader who built the property as a summer home for his family, wrote out specific instructions for many of the details of...
One of Historic New England’s new online visitor experiences features Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, Connecticut. The new online experience includes information on the collections and garden, behind-the scenes photographs, a 360° tour, stories of the family and staff, and more. Off the walls Start exploring by looking at the...
Preserving the Written Word Rare books include English, American, Italian, and French architectural books from the 1600s to the late 1800s; American builders’ guides, house pattern books, and decorating manuals from the late 1700s and 1800s; works on landscape architecture. Reference collection includes works on architecture, furniture, decorative arts,...
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