A National Historic Landmark since 1971, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion
Museum is an award-winning institution and regarded as one of the earliest and most significant Second Empire Style country houses in the United States. The Mansion, built between 1864 and 1868, was designed by architect Detlef Lienau for renowned financier and railroad baron LeGrand Lockwood and his wife Ann Louisa. This historic house features interiors and furnishings by such notable designers as the Herter Brothers, Léon Marcotte, and George Platt.

Following Lockwood’s untimely death in 1872, Charles Drelincourt Mathews, a wealthy merchant from New York, purchased the Mansion as a summer home for his wife, Rebecca, and their four children. Their eldest son, Charles T. Mathews, is known to have designed the Lady Chapel in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, NYC.

The City of Norwalk purchased the property in 1941. Today, the Mansion stands as an iconic treasure, with breathtaking interiors and furniture that illustrate magnificently the beauty and splendor of the Victorian era.

_{Photo: Steve Turner, Courtesy of David Scott Parker Architects}