The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum – Norwalk, CT
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum – Norwalk, CT – few homes in America are as elegant as this beautiful 62 room home built between 1864 and 1868. The Second Empire Style country house will welcome you with its granite construction with peaked and mansard slate roofs surrounding a stunning sky-lit octagonal rotunda.
The rooms are fit for a Queen with the marble accents and carefully crafted woodworking. The ceiling in the Drawing room is home to a ceiling painting of Venus at play with her Cupids painted in 1869.
The French Renaissance Revival style Dining Room will easily seat 24. The decorative detail in this room will have your eyes flashing from one piece of beauty to another.
The entire house is worthy of your visit. Plan to spend at least a couple of hours to get the full tour and history of the home.
