The Alexander Ellsworth House (1740)
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 Posted in Colonial, Houses, Windsor | 1 Comment »
Built in 1740, the Alexander (or is it Alex D.?) Ellsworth House, on Palisado Ave in Windsor, is currently for sale.
The Jonathan Ellsworth House (1784)
Friday, October 10th, 2008 Posted in Colonial, Houses, Windsor | No Comments »
The Jonathan Ellsworth House, on Palisado Ave in Windsor was built in 1784. The hipped roof Georgian house was in the Ellsworth family for several generations and was restored in the 1960s by Albro Case.
First Church in Windsor (1794)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Churches, Greek Revival, Windsor | No Comments »
The history of Windsor’s Congregational Church goes back to 1630, when its founding members arrived in Massachusetts with John Winthrop‘s fleet. In 1635, they left Dorchester, Mass and settled in Windsor. The town and congregation soon grew under the leadership of their minister, John Warham, and their teacher of church doctrine, Ephraim Huit. The church’s first building was located in the center of Palisado Green. The current First Church in Windsor, on Palisado Avenue, was built in 1794, but was significantly altered in 1844 with the replacement of the original steeple and the addition of a columned portico, both in the Greek Revival style.
Grace Episcopal Church, Windsor (1864)
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Churches, Gothic, Windsor | 2 Comments »
Constructed while he was still designing monuments for the firm of J. G. Batterson, George Keller‘s Grace Episcopal Church, on Broad Street Green in Windsor, is his earliest completed building. Just 21 years old at the time, Keller had just arrived in Hartford in 1864. The cornerstone was for the church was laid that year and the building was completed in 1865. Windsor’s Episcopal parish had been established in 1842, and their first church building was built in 1845. The church designed by Keller, in the Gothic Revival style, was enlarged and rededicated in 1934.
The Huntingdon House (1901)
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Colonial Revival, Houses, Windsor | 1 Comment »
The Huntington House, located along Windsor’s Broad Street Green, was built in 1901 and was lived in by members of the Huntington family until 1908. It is a Neo-Classical Revival and Colonial Revival style house, modeled on a Newport mansion. In 2001, the house was restored and opened to the public as the Huntington House Museum, but closed in 2005 due to a lack of community support. It now serves as offices.
The Benjamin Moore House (1770)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in Colonial, Houses, Windsor | No Comments »
This house is unrelated to the paints. The Benjamin Moore House was originally built around 1770 in Poquonock, a northern area of Windsor. It was constructed by Simeon and Hannah Barber Moore but, after they moved to Torrington in the 1780s, it was passed on to their son Benjamin and his siblings, Eldad and Hannah. In 1801 they applied for a mortgage which was held by Oliver Ellsworth. But even with an additional loan, the Moores had sold off their property by 1806. In 1986, the house was saved from demolition by Edward Sunderland, of Sunderland Period Homes, who dismantled it and moved it five miles away to its present location, where it is now part of Ellsworth Settlement in Windsor, a modern development consisting of relocated period homes. The house’s current Connecticut River Valley doorway is an appropriate reproduction. The house was featured in an article in the February, 2008 issue of the magazine, Early American Life. The house is currently for sale.
The Joseph Rainey House (1830)
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in Greek Revival, Houses, Windsor | No Comments »
The date the Joseph Rainey House, on Palisado Avenue in Windsor, was built is unknown, but the Greek Revival style was popular in the 1820s and 1830s. It is also possible that the Greek Revival section was added to an earlier building owned by Jonathan Ellsworth. Joseph Rainey was the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing South Carolina from 1870 to 1879. He bought the house as a summer home in 1874. The house is on the Connecticut Freedom trail.
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