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COVER STORY Pretty in pink Bowen House, Woodstock, Conn.     MORE INFORMATION Bowen House, also known as Roseland Cottage, is on Route 169 in Woodstock, Conn. It is open Wednesday through Sunday, June 1-Oct. 15, with tours on the hour from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $4 adults; seniors $3.50; children 12 and under $2. Operated by SPNEA, the house also sponsors events such as afternoon teas. 860-928-4074 or www.spnea.org. In the New York City of the mid-1800s Henry Bowen made and lost a fortune in the dry goods business, published an abolitionist newspaper, and helped found the Republican Party. But back in his hometown of Woodstock - a quiet farming community in Connecticut's northeast corner - if you say Bowen, people think pink. Bowen House, designed in 1846 as a Gothic Revival "cottage" has always been painted a bright pink. The exterior is one of the more striking aspects of this high-Victorian style mansion with its ornate furniture, heavily embossed wallpaper, and stained glass windows. Three presidents have slept there - in a room looking out on a beautiful boxwood garden. For the Fourth of July, Bowen put on not one, but two fireworks displays. Few politicos would pass up his invitation to the extravaganza. But every day was a holiday at this monument to leisure. Lawn tennis and polo were played on the expansive grounds. A highlight of the guided tour, though, is in a custom-designed barn: an indoor bowling alley that may well be the oldest in the country.

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