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Your Home for History
Connecticut Landmarks is a state-wide network of historic house museums sharing 400 years of New England history. Our museums are starting points for deeper exploration and greater appreciation of the Connecticut experience. Our real-life stories, as told through our houses, collections, and programs, make history matter.
What’s New?
Help Bring History to Life as a Museum Interpreter!
Are you an excellent storyteller with an interest in local history who’s excited to connect audiences of all ages with the stories of the past? We’re hiring Museum Interpreters to lead interactive visitor tours, support programs and events, and guide hands-on activities at our museums in Hartford, Coventry, East Haddam, and Bethlehem! No tour experience necessary! Our season starts in May with training taking place in March and April.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until positions are filled.
Job descriptions, information and application instructions available here »
Save the Dates! 2026 Historic Hartford Walking Tours
Prepare your favorite walking shoes! Our popular Historic Hartford Walking Tours return this April with new themes and specialty walks to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding! Here is a preview of what’s in store for this season:
- New for 2026! Historic Hartford Walk & Talk: Frederick Law Olmsted: Healing a Fractured Democracy (Saturday, April 25, 10 am-2 pm)
- New for 2026! Historic Hartford Walking Tour: Hartford Art and Artists (Saturday, May 2, 10 am – 12 noon)
- New for 2026! Historic Hartford Walking Tour: Old South Cemetery and the Camp Field (Saturday, May 9, 10 am – 12 noon)
- Historic Hartford Walking Tour: Beyond Main Street (Saturday, May 16, 10 am – 12 noon)
- New for 2026! Historic Hartford Walking Tour: Revolutionary Hartford (Saturday, September 19, 10 am – 12 noon) Join us to learn about Hartford’s Colonial roots – featuring part of the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route!
- Historic Hartford Walking Tour: Charter Oak & Coltsville (Saturday, September 26, 10 am – 12 noon)
Want to be among the first to know when full descriptions and tickets for these walks are available? Become a Member today to receive our member e-newsletter and ticketing discounts on each walk, or sign-up for our free e-newsletter where we will notify you when tickets are on sale!
Now Hiring: Assistant Site Administrator, Nathan Hale Homestead
Connecticut Landmarks seeks a permanent part-time Assistant Site Administrator to support the Site Administrator with the seasonal operations of the Nathan Hale Homestead. The Assistant Site Administrator, in collaboration with the Site Administrator, helps plan and deliver a broad range of creative programs, events, and exhibits that advance Connecticut Landmarks’ mission and brand, expand community partnerships, and encourage deeper engagement with diverse audiences. The Assistant Site Administrator will also assume responsibility for the overall management of the site in the absence of the site administrator. Assistant Site Administrators work closely with site staff on promoting and selling memberships, leading tours, executing events and programs, and helping to manage the site’s gift shop. The Assistant Site Administrator will play a key role in using and training staff on Blackbaud Altru, CTL’s ticketing, membership, and fundraising database software.
Preservation Updates
18th-Century Réveillon Wallpaper Conservation Techniques with Studio TKM Associates
Last week, Connecticut Landmarks’ Marketing & Communications Manager, Olivia, met with the conservators from Studio TKM Associates to discover more about conservation techniques used on the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden’s 18th-century Réveillon wallpaper. In this video, the conservation team shares insights into 18th-century wallpaper-making techniques, discusses the importance of using the electromagnetic spectrum and digital microscopes along with their work with Dr. Erin Mysak from Harvard University, and explores a brief history of the Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden!
With support from the National Park Service’s Save America’s Treasures, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and generous donors, we have reached 90% of our fundraising goal for this conservation project and hope you will consider a donation this giving season to help us reach the final 10%!
Discover more about the wallpaper conservation project and support the work »
Completion of Restoration Work at the Hempsted Houses
After beginning significant structural work in September on the 1728 addition of the 1678 Joshua Hempsted House, Connecticut Landmarks is excited to announce the museum is ready to re-open its 350-year-old doors to visitors!
Over the course of the project, Kronenberger & Sons Restoration expertly corrected structural deficiencies in the house by adding new beams and Lally columns in the cellar as well as reinforcing the summer beam and installing a new support post in Nathaniel’s Kitchen. Their team also installed new support posts in the second-floor bedchamber and added new headers and collar ties in the rafters in Adam’s Garret. Last week, our wonderful collections team carefully reinstalled collection pieces in each room, including Nathaniel’s Kitchen and Chamber pictured above.
DeStefano & Chamberlain, Preservation Connecticut, the CT State Historic Preservation Office, Crosskey Architects, and Kronenberger & Sons Restoration played crucial roles in guiding this project to completion. Funding for this work was possible through the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. All aspects of the project were carefully planned in compliance with the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office and United States Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. We are grateful to everyone who contributed to this project to help us preserve such an important historic landmark in New London. We’re able to keep history standing strong because of you!
We hope you will join us on 10/25 for Hempsted Halloween. This family-friendly event is free, and first-floor tours of the Joshua Hempsted House will be available! Interested in by-appointment tours or field trip opportunities? Please contact hempsted@ctlandmarks.org. Stay tuned to our website for a special ‘Re-Welcoming’ to the property next Spring!