Exhibits & Collections

Photo Gallery

Photographs of the Coley Homestead: the grounds through the seasons, the restored rooms of the Coley House, the Weston at Work exhibit and the Center’s events. Family albums shared for Weston Voices follow below.

The Coley Homestead

The 1841 farmhouse, barns and grounds through the seasons.

The Coley Homestead from the air above Weston Road, summer 2023
The Coley House and the Coley Barn from the air, summer 2023
The Coley Barn and its garden beds from above, summer 2023
The 1841 Coley House in early morning light, fall 2020
The Coley House and a red maple, fall 2022
Stone gateposts on the path to the Coley House, summer 2026
The Coley Barn with autumn maples, fall 2022
The 1883 Coley Barn in early morning light, fall 2020
A path across the homestead grounds at sunrise, fall 2020
A blue metal figure in the sculpture garden, summer 2026
The sculpture garden in spring, 2024

The Coley House rooms

Inside the Coley House: the parlors, office, dining room, kitchen, sunroom and Jimmy's room.

The front parlor, with its bay window and 1940s wallpaper.
The parlor, with the family's radio beside the fireplace.
The back parlor: Life in the '40s.
Cleora Coley's office and sewing room.
The dining room, once the house's 1841 kitchen, set for a meal.
The blue 1940s kitchen.
The sunroom, with African violets in the windows.
Jimmy's room, home to the Let's Play! toy exhibit.
Jimmy's horse wallpaper, the only original paper left in the house.

Weston at Work

Farm tools, cidering and textiles from the exhibit in the Coley Barn. Visit the exhibit.

The Weston at Work banner on the Coley Barn's old plank door.
Panels on Weston's agricultural past, with an old wooden plough below.
Cidering display with a cider mill, barrels, crates and apples.
The Lockwood hay baler, with a hay bale and explanatory banner.
A horse-drawn delivery wagon with milk cans in the barn.
The barn's side door, with a hanging sign for the textile exhibit.
The textile room, with a large floor loom and panels on the walls.
The community wall loom, with woven rugs hanging nearby.
The wool carding station beside a panel on Connecticut's early textile industry.
Woven and rag rugs beside a panel on wartime scrap drives.
The "Put the Washing Out" activity, with clothes pegged on a line.

Events

Concerts, lectures, tastings and seasonal strolls at the Coley Homestead. See what's coming up.

Connecticut military lecture, 2023: Pearl Harbor heroes
Cocktail tasting, 2022: an evening in the barn gallery
1940s Swinging Jazz with Vince Giordano, 2022
1940s Swinging Jazz, 2022: vintage cars on the lawn
Music at the Barn, 2022: the Logical Pretzel concert
Jack-o'-Lantern Stroll, 2021
1920s Jazz Concert with Vince Giordano, 2021: dancing by the barn
Jack-o'-Lantern Stroll, 2020: lit pumpkins on the Coley House porch
Founders Day, 2019: historic tools on display

Weston Voices photo albums

Each album sits with its oral history interview.

Come see the Coley Homestead for yourself.

Grounds are open every day, dawn to dusk.

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