Landmarks: The Brick Store
Today a tangle of scrub trees and the Florence Griswold Museum’s paved driveway occupy the site of the historic Brick Store, a distinctive two-story building that stood for more than a century in the...
View ArticleLandmarks: Marvin-Griffin House
The distinctive house with pillared veranda at the foot of Lyme Street that historian Martha J. Lamb described in 1876 as a “modern” mansion traces its origins to Albany. Erected for Benjamin Marvin,...
View ArticleLandmarks: Old Lyme’s Meeting House, Part II–The Arson Investigation
The identity of the “firebugs” responsible for burning the Old Lyme Meetinghouse remained a mystery throughout the summer of 1907. Then an attempt to ignite the village schoolhouse in November brought...
View ArticleLandmarks: Painted Gardens, Part 1- Boxwood Manor
The dazzling displays of Old Lyme’s gardens have captured the eye of painters and photographers for more than a century. Beside village lanes and riverbanks, in formal designs and in cultivated...
View ArticleLandmarks: Old Lyme’s Meetinghouse, Part III—The Controversy
The Independence Day holiday in 1907 passed without celebration in Old Lyme. Ashes still smoldered from the fire that demolished the Meetinghouse on July 3, and the community united in a sense of...
View ArticleLandmarks: The Disappearance of a Lyme Street House
Carolyn Wakeman Featured Photo: Joseph Perkins house, ca. 1890, showing apple trees behind. LHSA The stately Victorian home of General Joseph Griswold Perkins (1837-1913), long a landmark on Lyme...
View ArticleLandmarks: A Piece of the Porch
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image: Volute detached from the porch of Florence Griswold House A piece of hand-carved scrollwork, called a volute, that fell undamaged this week from the... The post...
View ArticleLandmarks: Peck Cemetery, The Resting Place of a Lyme Family
by Charles Beal Feature Image: Approaching Peck Cemetery from the northwest/east, showing carved gravestones, footstones, and fieldstones. Photographs by Charles Beal, 2016 Discovery Jedediah Peck...
View ArticleLandmarks: Reflections on the 1998 Archaeology Project
by Laurie Bradt Featured image: Childe Hassam, Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme, 1904. Oil on wood, 25 x 30 in. Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of the Vincent Dowling Family Foundation... The post...
View ArticleLandmarks: Viewing Joshua’s Rocks
Preview our upcoming exhibition Fresh Fields with this new perspective on Charles DeWolf Brownell’s view of Joshua’s Seat, a rock formation on the Connecticut River with ties to Native American...
View ArticleLandmarks: Old Lyme Inns in the Mid-20th Century
By John E. Noyes Featured Image: Mary Bradish Titcomb, Morning at Boxwood, ca. 1910. Florence Griswold Museum, Purchase Taverns and Inns Mary Bradish Titcomb’s painting of women on the veranda... The...
View ArticleLandmarks: Einstein Dreaming in Old Lyme
By Carolyn Wakeman Featured Image: William Lord house, Tantummaheag. Lyme Historical Society Archives at the Florence Griswold Museum The story of visionary Albert Einstein’s summer in Old Lyme, with...
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