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Roseland Cottage, also known as Henry C. Bowen House or as Bowen Cottage, is a historic house that is one of the best and most beautifully preserved Gothic summer houses in the nation. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a National Historic Landmark, the house was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1846 as the summer home of Henry and Lucy Bowen and their young family, and today is a museum that features spectacular interiors with original Gothic furniture.

The house is surrounded by a pristine boxwood parterre garden, a garden house, a carriage barn, an icehouse, and the nation's oldest surviving indoor bowling alley. The house is renowned for hosting to the largest Fourth of July celebrations in the United States during the 1870s along with prominent guests such as Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, and John C. Fremont.

556 CT-169, Woodstock, CT 06281, Phone: 617-227-3956

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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