At 2 Cannon Square in Stonington is an 1853 house built for Gilbert William Collins. With his brother Daniel and Mark Glines, Collins ran a mill producing doors and window-sash frames. The Collins House is adjacent to Ocean Bank (1851) and faces the monument and cannons of Cannon Square, which commemorate the 1814 Battle of Stonington.

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The Gilbert William Collins House (1853)