Luxury Hotels In Connecticut

Woodbury’s Antiques Trail follows U.S. Route 6 through the historic town, with dealers covering varied periods, styles and categories. It suits an interest in comparing furnishings and decorative objects across several shops. Distinguish period antiques from bench-made reproductions when choosing an object; both form part of the area’s range.

Hollister House Garden in Washington combines a loosely formal structure with abundant, informal planting. The contrast between that underlying order and the planting is the subject of the visit. It gives a Litchfield Hills garden outing a specific design interest, separate from simply spending time in a hotel’s landscaped grounds.

It combines shoreline scenery with a town green, shops and historic-house museums. It is a useful coastal-cultural chapter when you want more than a view of the water, and a different subject from the northwestern hills.

Hill-Stead in Farmington combines a Colonial Revival house with a French Impressionist collection associated with Alfred Pope. Works by Monet, Manet and Degas belong to this domestic setting. Choose it for the relationship between collected art, furnishings and the country house, rather than expecting a conventional sequence of white-walled galleries.

The Connecticut River Museum gives the river a historical subject. Its permanent On the Great River exhibit follows the story from Indigenous peoples through the early nineteenth century, while a vertical mural traces the river along the stairwell. It is a regional-history choice that complements shoreline scenery and the state’s inland country retreats.