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Connecticut Tourism

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum - Norwalk, CT

exterior Lockwood mansion.jpgThe Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum - Norwalk, CT

Enter the past when you walk into The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum which was built between 1864 and 1868.  Why so long?  Well, it’s because there are 62 rooms in the home which is regarded as one of the earliest and finest surviving Second Empire Style country houses ever built in the United States.  Craftsmen from many countries were used to complete the construction of the house.  The house was constructed of granite with peaked and mansard slate roofs surrounding a stunning sky-lit octagonal rotunda. 

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