Welcome to
Rockville Elks Lodge #1359
Home Lodge of CEA Vice
President, East District, Dan Skiba, PDD
9 North Park Street
Rockville, CT 06066
Lodge Phone - 860-875-8057
Email:
1359Rockville@CTElks.org
MEETING
SCHEDULE:
Lodge- Second
& Fourth Thursdays at 7:30PM with the exception of July
and August
Lodge meets on 2nd Tuesday in November.
LODGE
HOURS
OF OPERATION:
| Monday-Friday |
3PM-11PM |
| Saturday |
Noon-11PM |
| Sunday |
Noon-10PM |
OFFICERS
2008 - 2009:
DIRECTIONS TO OUR
LODGE:
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From Hartford via I-84
Stay straight to go onto I-84 E. Take the CT-31 exit, exit number 67.
Turn left onto Mile Hill Rd/CT-31. Mile Hill Rd becomes Grove St at traffic
light intersection with CT-30. Continue straight to next traffic light at East
Main St and take left to next traffic light in center of Rockville.
Turn RIGHT onto Park St. and proceed up the hill taking a slight LEFT at
the top and an IMMEDIATE RIGHT onto North Park Street. The Lodge is located
just up ahead on the LEFT.
From Boston via I-84
Take Exit 67 on I-84 and follow directions as if coming from Hartford.
From Springfield/Somers/Ellington
Take CT-83/Somers Rd to intersection of Union St/CT-74 just over the Vernon
town line. Turn LEFT onto Union St CT-74 and follow that to the center of
Rockville (small park on left).
Turn LEFT onto Park St. and proceed up the hill taking a slight LEFT at the
top and an IMMEDIATE RIGHT onto North Park Street. The Lodge is located just
up ahead on the LEFT.
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Door-to-Door Directions courtesy of
"MapQuest"
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NEWSLETTER
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Attached is an electronic version of the Lodge
monthly newsletter in Adobe®
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Official
Rockville Lodge Pins For Sale
$2.00 - Available at the
Lodge
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HISTORY OF OUR
LODGE HOME:
Many Rockville Lodge and visiting members come and go from the Lodge
without realizing the history of the building.
It was built as the home of Francis T. Maxwell and his family. Mr. Maxwell
commissioned the renowned architect Charles Adams Platt to design the home and
its grounds around 1900. Platt exerted a major influence on the development of
historically based design styles during the American country house era of the
first quarter of the 20th century
Its basic disposition of residence, outbuildings, and gardens recalled the
Villa Gamberaia near Florence. From the Pillars at the road, the drive ran
straight past the service area and into a walled arrival court by the front
door. An axis from this shaded court at the north door ran through the width
of the house to the south facade's expansive, sunny terrace, which afforded
views across lawns to the valley below. This offered in short distance
dramatic changes in experiences: exterior, interior, and exterior. Placed on a
longer cross axis, the principle living rooms were aligned with a major garden
walk, thus again integrating interior and exterior spaces. With only minor
changes in details, an unidentified plan of "Maxwell Court" became
the archetypal formal house and garden for the thousands of students who saw
it in the principle 20th-century textbook for landscape architecture courses
in the United States, Henry Vincent Hubbard and Theodora Kimball's "An
Introduction of the Study of Landscape Design."
MORE PICTURES
OF OUR LODGE:
Click on the images below to open up a full-size version of these pictures!
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Our
Entryway,
9
North Park Street
Rockville,
CT |
Lodge
Home as viewed from the Gardens |
Our
"Small" Dining Room |
View
of our Main Staircase |
Rockville
Lodge at Christmas |
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| Entrance
to the Italian Gardens |
Garden
Plantings |
View
through the Gardens to the Home |
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| Lodge
Trustee Carl Schaefer working in our Italian Gardens |
Bob
Kahl's plantings with the mini pergola in the background |
Fall
flower plantings with the Grand Pergola. |
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Rockville Lodge #1359 appreciates everyone who visits our
Web Site and we hope that you will continue to visit our
site in the future. Thanks for stopping by and come
again !!! |
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