The Italianate-style house at 559 Old Main Street in Rocky Hill was built around 1850. It is also possible that the house was built much earlier and was then later adapted to the Italianate style. In the mid-nineteenth century, the house was owned by William Neff, a merchant who ran a wagon shop at Rocky Hill landing along the Connecticut River.

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William Neff House (1850)