Travelers on Route 6 in Bolton pass by a Federal/Greek Revival-style house with a sign identifying it as “Patriot Farm.” Older surveys date the house, at 822 Hopriver Road, to c.1822, but a sign on the house says it was built by Jonathan Colton in 1788 (the sign is on a wing of the house, so perhaps this refers to the wing as an earlier section, with main block dating to the 1820s?). The property is currently for sale.
The Ezra Loomis House is a Cape Cod-style house at 22 Brandy Street in Bolton. The house was constructed sometime between 1740 and 1780 and has a neighboring open carriage barn built around 1970.
Built sometime between 1740 and 1780, the Joel White House is located on Bolton Center Road in Bolton. It was the site of Bolton’s first post office in 1812. Samuel Alvord was the first Postmaster.
The Town of Bolton was incorporated in 1720 and the town’s Congregational Church was organized in 1725. The first meeting house, located on Bolton Green, was built used for about forty years, being replaced by a new building on the same site in 1767. The second church remained until it too was replaced by the current Bolton Congregational Church, a Greek Revival building with a truncated box-spire, in 1848.
The house at 285 Bolton Center Road in Bolton originally stood at the corner of High and Wadsworth Streets in East Hartford. It was moved to Bolton in the early 1990s by historic home restorers Len and Betty Matyia. The house, which may have been built as early as the late seventeenth century through around 1730, has been linked to the original Hartford proprietor William Hill, who traveled with Rev. Thomas Hooker to found the new settlement in 1636. Hill was captain of Hartford’s first trainband on the east side of the Connecticut River. The discovery of a connection with Hill in 1992 led to some controversy concerning the removal of the historic house from East Hartford. Restored to a post-Medieval appearance, the house is now situated in a rural colonial setting with an adjacent post and beam barn.
The Thomas Loomis House, on Brandy Street in Bolton, was built sometime between 1740 and 1780 (perhaps around 1750). According to WPA Architectural Survey information, a room of featheredge boarding was removed from the house in November 1936 by H. A. Armstrong for use in the “Old Stone House” (Henry Whitfield House) in Guilford.
What is known as the Brick Tavern is a Federal-style brick house, located in Bolton Center. It was built around 1828 by Samuel Williams and was a tavern and station on the Hartford-Norwich stagecoach line. An earlier house on the property, built around 1770, had become an ell to the 1828 house, but was later removed. The Brick Tavern was purchased by the Town of Bolton in 2007.
