Main Street History Center
396 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103
Tel: 860.522.1806
Email: butler.mccook@ctlandmarks.org
HOURS:
Open for Tours: April 1st - Dec 31st
April: Sat & Sun 11 am - 4 pm
May - Sept: Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun 11 am - 4 pm
Oct - Dec: Sat & Sun 11 am - 4 pm
Group tours may be scheduled by appointment by contacting the education department at (860) 247-8996 x 11.
For 189 years the Butler-McCook House & Garden was home to four generations of a family who participated in, witnessed, and recorded the evolution of Main Street between the American Revolution and the mid-twentieth century. The house's exterior looks much as it did when it was built in 1782. Behind it is a restored Victorian ornamental garden, originally laid out in 1865. Inside are the original furnishings ranging from Connecticut-crafted colonial furniture to Victorian-era toys and paintings to samurai armor acquired during a trip to Japan. The objects were accumulated over the course of almost two centuries by members of this extraordinary clan, which included physicians, industrialists, missionaries, artists, globe trotters and pioneering educators and social reformers.
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