Landmarks: Einstein Dreaming in Old Lyme
Landmarks: Einstein Dreaming in Old Lyme By Carolyn Wakeman [...]
Landmarks: Old Lyme Inns in the Mid-20th Century
Landmarks: Old Lyme Inns in the Mid-20th Century [...]
Landmarks: Viewing Joshua’s Rocks
Landmarks: Viewing Joshua’s Rocks The 2020 exhibition Fresh [...]
Landmarks: Reflections on the 1998 Archaeology Project
by Laurie Bradt Featured image: Childe Hassam, Apple Trees in [...]
Landmarks: Peck Cemetery, The Resting Place of a Lyme Family
Landmarks: Peck Cemetery, The Resting Place of a Lyme [...]
Landmarks: A Piece of the Porch
by Carolyn Wakeman Featured image: Volute detached from the porch [...]
Landmarks: The Disappearance of a Lyme Street House
Carolyn Wakeman Featured Photo: Joseph Perkins house, ca. 1890, showing apple [...]
Landmarks: 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 shared loss. But when the newly arrived minister proposed replacing the elegant white clapboard structure that had graced the village for almost a century with an “up-to-date” red brick church, controversy flared.
Landmarks: 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 wildness, blossoming gardens brought swaths of color to hotel grounds, country estates, and artists’ dooryards. Postcard views of the flowerbeds, hedgerows, rock walls, and fruit trees at Boxwood Manor became almost a signature image of the town’s scenic beauty in the 1930s.
Landmarks: 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 two suspected arsonists to trial.
Landmarks: 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, Jr. (1743–1823) ca. 1820, the two-story mid-section was built with lumber provided by his sons who had settled in the Hudson River Valley. The timbers, pre-cut in an Albany sawmill and shipped down the Hudson River, then across Long Island Sound, were assembled just south of the village green on the site of an earlier family dwelling.
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 village.
