a visit to the PIGEON Inn
the Georgian-style, center-chimney Colonial house sits aloft on a miniature hillside where two dirt roads converge in Woodstock, Connecticut. This was once a busy thoroughfare for travelers en route to Boston, Hartford, or New York. During the Revolutionary War, Captain Henry Child converted his home, which he’d built in 1760, to the Pigeon Inn, to accommodate weary soldiers.
“At the peak, there were 45 inns and taverns in Woodstock alone,” said Peter Howard, who owns the house with
