Editing Woodstock, Connecticut (section)

===Roseland Cottage===
[[Image:Roseland Cottage (Bowen Cottage) - general view.jpg|thumb|[[Historic American Buildings Survey|HABS]] photo of Roseland Cottage (1970).]]
[[File:Roseland Cottage, Woodstock, CT 2020.jpg|thumb|right|Photo of Roseland Cottage (2020).]]
[[Roseland Cottage]], also known as the Pink House or the Bowen House, was a summer home built by wealthy businessman Henry C. Bowen in 1846. This is where Bowen hosted U.S. Presidents for his then-famous Independence Day celebrations at Roseland Park. [[Ulysses S. Grant]] bowled his first strike in the bowling alley located in the carriage barn.<ref name=house/>

The pink-colored house features "tall, angular gables, gingerbread trim, and 21 formal flower gardens outlined by dwarf boxwood hedges," according to a [[Hartford Courant]] article. Roseland is an example of Victorian Gothic Revival style, which can be seen in its pointed gables, scrolled bargeboards, many tall chimneys, and leaded glass windows in diamond shapes. The outside walls, of board and batten wood siding, have been painted 13 different colors over the past 150 years—all shades of pink. As of the summer of 2006, the house was a coral or salmon color. The house still includes the owners' original furniture and knickknacks.<ref name=house/>

Roseland was designed (under Bowen's direction) by architect Joseph C. Wells. The design was influenced by the design books of architectural critic Andrew Jackson Downing.<ref name=house/>

Fine Homebuilding magazine named Roseland one of the 25 most important houses in America in its 2006 Fine Homebuilding Houses Annual Issue.<ref name=house/>

Roseland Cottage was purchased by Historic New England in 1970 and is currently open to the public for tours.<ref name=house/>