aCTLWinter2017News_Layout 1 11/13/2017 9:19 AM Page 1 Nonprofit Org. U. S. Postage PAID Hartford, CT Landmark News Permit # 4994 Conneicut Landmarks Newsletter History Moving Forward Volume 21 Number 3 Fall/Winter 2017 Amos Bull House landmarks.org 59 South Prospect Street Hartford, CT 06106 Conneicut Landmarks inires intere & encourages learning about the American pa by preserving seleed hioric properties, colleions & ories & presenting programs that meaningfully engage the public & our communies. Weddings, Parties & Corporate Events! Holiday Events & Gatherings! oliday magic and merriment come to Connecticut gilded with floral sprays and sparkling snowflakes. Landmarks with Homes for the Holidays Suffield Everything looks and smells grand– fresh flowers and Hand we can’t wait to celebrate! December 1st – 3rd spices scent the air! ‘Twas the Week Before Christmas… will fill the Phelps- Hatheway House with the anticipation and expectation of The festive weekend begins with the Opening Night the holiday season. NEW this year, CTL presents A Polish Preview Party, Cocktails at Hatheway, on Friday, Christmas with Martha Hall Kelly at the Bellamy-Ferriday December 1st from 6 – 9 pm, with catered hors d’oeuvres House & Garden on Sunday, December 10th, inspired by the by The Federal, wine, a silent auction and a champagne lapins’ holiday stay at philanthropist Caroline Ferriday’s toast to ring in the season. The festivities continue Connecticut home. throughout the weekend as children and their beloved teddy Ho your next event at a Conneicut Landmarks’ Proper. bears join in a Teddy Bear Tea on December 2nd. Special From 18th-century elegance to ruic barns, each exquise se The Suffield Garden Club will deck the halls of the Phelps- Weekend Tours of the decorated Phelps-Hatheway House, creates the perfe backdrop for your unforgetable event! Hatheway House for ‘Twas the Week Before Christmas… dressed in its holiday finest, will be held on Saturday and Each gorgeous room will bustle with holiday preparations. Sunday, December 2nd and 3rd from 1 – 4 pm. Enjoy light Delight in the millinery work as adornments are put atop refreshments and shop for beautiful floral arrangements to festive hats. Behind closed doors, the men are taking a adorn your house and holiday table. All proceeds benefit www.landmarks.org cigar and port break from wrapping presents. The hall is the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden. continued on pages 3 & 11 106061_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 1 11/14/17 9:31 AM aCTLWinter2017News_Layout 1 11/13/2017 9:19 AM Page 2 Conneicut THANK YOU! Dear Friends, Continued... landmarks Greater Hartford Arts Council Griebel Family Fund at HFPG amos Bull house As we turn our attention to holiday events I’m 59 south Prospect street Nathan Hale Fife & Drum Corps so thankful for the joys the 2017 Season has Astrid & Fred Hanzalek Fund II at HFPG hartford, Ct 06106 brought to Connecticut Landmarks. The Hartford Courant 860.247.8996 summer and fall were filled with educational The Hartford [email protected] Hartford Flavor Company ctlandmarks.org programs and events for all ages. Our youngest visitors busied themselves with crafts and Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Hartford News activities focused on nature and pollinators at officers Hoffman Auto Group Frederick C. Copeland, Jr, Chair the Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden. Three Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Cornelius O’Leary,ViceChair&GovernanceChair CTL sites– the Nathan Hale Homestead, Phelps-Hatheway House & Foundation, Inc. James D. Parry, Vice Chair & Finance Chair Garden and Hempsted Houses– engaged youth in active summer camps Shepherd Monson Holcombe Fund at HFPG James Anderson, Treasurer designed to bring history’s lessons to a new generation. Our Hartford Institute of Museum & Library Services Beth Iacampo, Secretary & Personnel Chair Jon Fish Quality Seafood Youth Employment Program students explored their communities’ history KeyBank trus and the dynamic role of museums in our society. Chester Kitchings Family Foundation John Bon Kitchings Family Fund at Community Carla Cabrera CTL Site Staff came together at the Amos Bull House for intensive Foundation of Eastern Connecticut David Canton, Ph.D. workshops and trainings with Braden Paynter from the International LaPiastra Rohan A. Frman Coalition of Sites of to learn and practice the Coalition’s dialogue The Last Green Valley Susan Horn methods and principles. Staff also visited other CTL properties to learn The Lily House Bed & Breakfast Jay Levin The Suffield Garden Club was established in 1934 to “promote the Lips, Rousseau Wealth Management Duy McMahan more about the connections between our houses, and to engage in knowledge and love of gardening and the art of flower arranging, the William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Dr. Troy Monr brainstorming and feedback sessions. protection of trees, plants and birds, civic beautification and respect for the NewAlliance Foundation Patrick L. Pinnell, Colleions Chair Nick's Country Kitchen environment.” The Suffield Garden Club has beautifully maintained the Todd Regan The newly preserved and renovated Hale Barns welcomed many visitors Old Bethlehem Historical Society Phelps-Hatheway Gardens for over 50 Years. Each December, club members Melissa Roy this summer and fall during the weekly Coventry Farmers’ Market, for Old Hill Gardens turn their attention to the Phelps-Hatheway House as they decorate for the Jeffrey P. Ossen Family Foundation Anthony J. Salerno, Jr. CTL programs and events, and as the venue for two beautiful wedding James Wu annual Home for the Holidays celebration. Frank Loomis Palmer Fund celebrations! In September, friends of CTL gathered in and around the Pentimento Flowers Central office staff gorgeous barns and on the outdoor patio to raise funds for educational Pirie Associates Architects, LLC Sheryl N. Hack, Executive Direor programming at the Homestead at Evening at the Homestead. RC Knox Jana Colacino, Hartford Educator Republic At The Linden Jamie-Lynn Fontaine Connell, As we enjoyed the success of the Hale Barns Renovation Project, we also Robinson & Cole, LLP Marketing & Development Manager turned our attention to focus on another important CTL property and Vernon D. & Florence E. Roosa Family Amanda Cooper, e Gift of hi Foundation at HFPG rd h s project. On September 23 we held our first event at the Palmer-Warner e t tor Marketing & Development Assiant Giv y SBM Charitable Foundation Erin Malueg, Colleions & Proje Manager, property in East Haddam welcoming over 85 individuals for Classic Cars oliday sea Soroptimists International of Greater Palmer-Warner House & Cocktails. At the event we unveiled concept sketches prepared by his h son Waterbury Michl Moon, Proper Assiant Trustee Dusty McMahan and his team at Goman+York, depicting the t Suffield Chamber of Commerce Joseph Pukas, Proper Manager barns as the site’s upcoming Visitor Welcome, Event & Program Center. Suffield Garden Club Kerri Zongol, Executive Assiant & Office Manager Please contact me about this important undertaking! We encourage TD Bank Town of Coventry Museum staff everyone’s input and participation. Towne Apothecary George McCleary, Se Horticulturi Travelers & Interim Se Adminirator, The celebrations continue in November and December with festive True Value of Bethlehem Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden holiday events at many CTL properties. We look forward to delighting Two Wrasslin' Cats Ailn Novick, Se Adminirator you with Home for the Holidays at the Phelps-Hatheway House and The United Illuminating Company & Proje Manager, Hemped Houses inviting you to meet New York Times best selling author Martha Hall Connecticut landmarks Memberships & James Vance and Associates Architects Anne Marie Charland, Se Adminirator, Kelly at A Polish Christmas with Martha Hall Kelly at the Bellamy- Patricia and Charles Walker Family Fund Nathan Hale Homeead fox Cards make great gis! at HFPG Marilyn Yarrington, Events Coordinator, Ferriday House. Please see the event calendar for dates and times. Webster Bank Nathan Hale Homeead Memberships start at $40 and come with a host of special benefits. West Hartford Garden Club Lynn Mervosh, Se Adminirator, Wishing you and your loved ones the best of the holiday season! Fox Cards are $25 admission cards good for one adult admission to Westford Hill Distillers Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C. 5 of CTL’s participating museums (a $50 value). Willimantic Waste Paper Co., Inc. Accounting Resources, Inc., Consulting Bookkpers Windsor Federal Savings Love & Pop Designs, Graphic Designer Woodbury-Bethlehem Community Call 860.247.8996 x 23 to order. Music Foundation Inc. Sheryl Hack Your gift will come wrapped and ready to give. Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at HFPG Executive Director Page 2 Page 11 106061_CTLand_Newsletter.indd 2 11/14/17 9:31 AM aCTLWinter2017News_Layout 1 11/13/2017 9:19 AM Page 3 continued from page 1 THANK YOU! Welcome to the CTL Family! We are grateful for the support of our members, donors, community Two New Trustees Join the Board partners, funders and sponsors. Without you, preserving, presenting Susan Horn began her relationship and promoting the very best of with CTL as Museum Interpreter Connecticut history would working with the afterschool program not be possible. at the Butler-McCook House in 2001. 2Seal, LLC Currently, she works in a special Accounting Resources, Inc. education program at Northwestern Anonymous Regional 7. With 30 years of Arbor Services, LLC experience preserving her ‘20s style Beatrice Fox Auerbach