Upcoming Events

Join us for a special program with 

John J. O'Leary IV on Saturday, March 29, at 2pm. This program is FREE and open to all!

For more than 60 years, the Reuter family was a dominant force in the field of antique

automobile restoration. Richard and Robert Reuter, who descend from a long line of master

craftsmen, restore all kinds of wheeled vehicles, from classic cars to World War II motorcycles.

In the world of six-figure classic and collectible cars, the name Reuter on a restoration was like

Sterling on silver. Over the years, Reuters’s Coach Works, Inc., located at 29 1/2 New Street in

Danbury, rejuvenated scores of great American dream machines, such as Duesenbergs,

Bugattis, Rolls Royces, Packards and Jaguars. And, on occasion, its expertise was sought out

for the restoration of other wheeled vehicles, such as old fire engines and horse drawn carriages.

The Reuter heritage of fine craftsmanship dates to 1929 when their grandfather Gustave Reuter,

a German carriage maker, emigrated to the United States and set up a repair shop in the Bronx,

NY, specializing in refurbishing the interiors and exteriors of the luxury cars then favored by

movie stars and business tycoons. The list of Reuter restorations reads like a Who’s Who of the

rich and famous.

Reuter’s Coach Works resuscitated Greta Garbo’s 1932 custom made Duesenberg, a 1929 short-

wheel-base Duesenberg SJ once owned by actor Gary Cooper. Reuter’s has also done work for

two former Presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Packard Twelve and Woodrow Wilson’s

Pierce Arrow. Other Reuter clients included the automobile collections of James Melton

‘America’s Favorite Tenor’, Henry Austin Clark (Long Island Automotive Museum) and

Sportsman and Yachtsman Briggs Cunningham. Alec Ulmann (founder of the 12-hour Sebring

sports car race), American Showman P.T. Barnum, actress Joan Fontaine, Dave Garroway

(founding host and anchor of NBC’s Today show), famed automotive writer Ken Purdy, and

even Nelson Rockefeller while he served as Vice President of the United States all trusted their

vehicles to the expert craftsmanship of Reuter’s Coach Works.

“As long as it needed paint and upholstery, we could take care of it”, said Robert Reuter.

On Saturday, April 5, at 2pm we are pleased to welcome the Atlantic Guitar Quartet to the Danbury Museum. The concert will be held in Huntington Hall and will be FREE and open to all! Check out their performances HERE!

Founded in 2010, the Atlantic Guitar Quartet is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to promoting the music of living composers.  Through virtuosic performances, innovative programming and collaborations with other visual and performing artists, AGQ has broadened the repertoire for – and the definition of – the classical guitar quartet.

Each of the four members, Mark Edwards, James Keretses, Matthew Slotkin and Zoë Johnstone Stewart have enjoyed extensive solo and chamber performing careers prior to joining the ensemble.  As a group AGQ has performed as part of the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society concert series, Ulster Chamber Series, Evolution Contemporary Music series, and at Salisbury University, York College of Pennsylvania, Loyola University, Marshall University and the Peabody Institute.   They have been artists-in-residence at the Engineers Club of the Garret-Jacobs Mansion in Baltimore since 2010 and members of the Maryland State Arts Council Touring Roster since 2017.   In addition to their performances, the quartet has also been invited to teach master classes and workshops at the Peabody Summer Guitar Intensive, Salisbury University, Bloomsburg University and the Mid Atlantic Guitar Ensemble Festival. 

AGQ has been proactive in expanding the repertoire of the classical guitar quartet by commissioning new works.  With major institutional support by the Presser Foundation and the Peabody Conservatory, AGQ has premiered pieces by American composers Vid Smooke, Christopher Gainey and Ronald Pearl.  Several of these works, along with music by composer Olivier Bensa and Arvo Pärt, are featured on the quartet’s debut CD (released in November of 2013).