Visitors to the Hotchkiss-Fyler House Museum can view this grand home as it was when last occupied by Gertrude Fyler Hotchkiss in 1956. That year, Mrs. Hotchkiss bequeathed her Main Street property to the Torrington Historical Society and with that gift also gave the organization its permanent home. Today, visitors are able to take a guided tour of this Queen Anne style Victorian which features fine woodwork, stenciled walls, murals, and original family furnishings. The house is open for guided tours seasonally April through October and is also decorated for Christmas each December.
Commissioned in 1897 by Torrington residents Orsamus …
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