What is Modern Design?
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:09-07:00The development of modern architecture in the 1920s grew from an interest in new materials and a rejection of past styles. It was a style that promoted interactions with the [...]
Pioneers of Modern Design
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:08-07:00Norwich’s story of modern architecture begins with three pioneers of modern design: Walter Curt Behrendt, Walter Gropius, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Walter Curt Behrendt was a German architect and authority [...]
Online Exhibit: Mad for Mid-Century Modern
norwichhistory2022-02-16T13:26:20-07:00Modern Architecture Comes to Norwich There was little new building in Norwich during the period of population loss in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and as a result [...]
Quilt Stories: The Nowich Fair
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:16-07:00Polly Forcier, Quilter In 1949, having outgrown the Vestry that once stood on Main Street, the Norwich Congregational Church inaugurated the lively Norwich Fair to [...]
Quilt Stories: The Revere Bell
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:16-07:00Susanna Reed, Quilter In 1817, the current Congregational Church building was constructed, facing west across Main Street and up Elm Street. Thomas Emerson purchased a bell for [...]
Fall Mid-Century Modern Programs
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:17-07:00The Norwich and Hanover Historical Societies have teamed up to offer a series of lectures and walking tours in conjunction with the current exhibit, Mad for Mid-Century Modern. Join us. [...]
Quilt Stories
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:17-07:00In 1976 the Norwich Women's Club members pieced a quilt in recognition of the country's bicentennial. Each week this fall we will be sharing photographs and stories related to the quilt [...]
From Norwich to the Gold Fields
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:18-07:00Elizabeth Emerson wasn’t the only Norwich resident to head west during the nineteenth century.As Kevin scanned photographs from our Main Street file, I was reminded of a story. A few [...]
Elizabeth Emerson Atwater
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:18-07:00While looking through the Main Street file, I came across this note on the back of a photograph of the Thomas Emerson House, which now [...]
Car Talk in Norwich
norwichhistory2020-10-05T12:10:19-07:00Automobiles pictured in the photographs of the Norwich Historical Society’s collection can provide interesting glimpses of what was being driven in Norwich over the years. They can also help us [...]