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I’m announcing the return of this site’s companion blog, Historic Buildings of Massachusetts! The site has been offline for about a year and hadn’t been updated since the end of 2017, but I have some new material that I’ll be adding from Concord and Sheffield, and a great deal from Gloucester, like the brick hotel, pictured above, which dates to 1810. I’ve also recently posted a library and a church, both in Great Barrington. In addition, I’ve been working on indexes of buildings by street address for each town (like the ones I have for this site), and I have so far completed most of them. Please check out that site (and this one, of course!) for new posts!

For everyone who likes looking up buildings on this site, you can always scroll through the categories on the right sidebar and on the Categories page, or use the Search page. I am also working on completing building indices (indexes) for each town. You can find them on the Index by Town page. These are restricted to buildings featured on this site so far. For each town, the buildings are listed by address. Most towns I’ve featured on this site have building indexes already, but I am continuing to make new ones: recently I’ve added Newington, Norfolk, Waterford and Washington. Check them out and thanks for following this site!

I recently did an interview with Identidad Latina:

I also have three presentations on Hartford this month: 
“A Walk Through Hartford Old East Side/Front Street Neighborhood” October 8, 1:00 PM at the South Windsor Senior Center
“Nook Farm: the Hartford Neighborhood of Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe”October 22, 1:00 PM at the South Windsor Senior Center
“Hartford’s Old Insurance Company Buildings”October 30, 10:30 AM at the Elmwood Senior Center in West Hartford ($4 for non-members)

Today is the twelfth anniversary of Historic Buildings of Connecticut. Thanks to everyone who follows my posts about beautiful & interesting building throughout the state. As of today there are 4,184 individual building posts on this site! My first post was the Joseph Webb House in Wethersfield, back when it was still painted red!

In addition to new posts about different buildings, I am also working on completing an index of buildings for each town. So stay tuned! And dont’s forget to follow me on Twitter & Facebook. Thanks!

I’m doing a talk tomorrow about Nook Farm, the Hartford neighborhood of Mark Twain & Harriet Beecher Stowe, at the Elmwood Senior Center in West Hartford at 10:30 am. The non-member price is $4.00. Come by if you are available!

My article on Octagon Houses in Connecticut for Connecticut Explored Magazine is now available online at https://www.ctexplored.org/site-lines-connecticuts-octagon-houses/. Octagon houses featured on this site can be found under the Octagon category.

I’ll be doing a presentation on Hartford’s old East Side neighborhood next Thursday, February 21 at the Elmwood Senior Center in West Hartford. This is the neighborhood of the old Front Street that was demolished in the late 1950s to make way for Constitution Plaza, the Phoenix Building and the interstate highway. Using historic photos, we will journey down State Street to Front Street and then to Commerce Street along the Connecticut River. Revisit a fascinating urban landscape that was lost to  redevelopment over 60 years ago.

This is part of a series of three talks I’m giving at the Elmwood Senior Center. I’m also doing a course through West Hartford LifeLearn Continuing Education called “Great Buildings of Hartford” that begins later this month.