Buildings Index (Scroll down for Willimantic)
Machine Shop Hill Road
11 Smith & Winchester Manufacturing Company (1908)
Main Street (South Windham)
4 Elisha H. Holmes, Jr. House (1872)
9 Guilford Smith House (1877)
16 Elisha H. Holmes, Sr. House (1840)
17 Guilford Smith Memorial Library (1836)
North Road
9 Justin Swift House (1820)
11 Jedediah Elderkin House (1710)
17 Eliphalet Dyer House (1715)
22 Josephine Bingham House (1860)
28 Isaac Clark House (1780)
Scotland Road
4 Windham Inn (1783)
South Windham Road
361 First Congregational Church of South Windham (1902)
Windham Center Road
4 Windham Center Church (1887)
8 Samuel Grey House (1790)
10 Laura Huntington House (1850)
29 Baker-Weir House (1750/1860)
Windham Green Road
7 Dr. Chester Hunt Office (1790)
9 Windham Free Library (1832)
11 J. Hebbard House (1783)
17 Shubael Abbe House (1765)
19 Eleazar Fitch-John Ripley House and Store (1755)
Willimantic
Bridge Street
Windham & Smithville Company Store (1850)
Chestnut Street
71 John A. Conant House (1894)
Main Street
322 Willimantic Linen Company, Mill No. 2 (1864)
322 Willimantic Linen Company Office (1866)
322 Willimantic Linen Company Store House & Inspection Building (1873)
322 Willimantic Linen Company Stable (1873)
411 Windham Textile and History Museum (1877)
480 Willimantic Linen Company, Mill No. 1 (1857)
561 William Jillson House (1826)
667 First Baptist Church of Willimantic (1858)
967 Old Willimantic Post Office (1909)
979 Windham Town Hall (1896)
North Street
228 William P. Jordan House (1885)
Pleasant Street
10-12 Young’s Tavern (1776)
255 Willimantic Armory (1913)
Prospect Street
17 Willimantic Camp Meeting Association (1860-1948)
97 Edwin Bugbee House (1875)
115-117 Jerome Baldwin House (1885)
133 Hyde Kingsley House (1883)
183 Arthur I. Bill House (1887)
191 Amos Morris Hathaway House (1889)
272 George Tiffany House (1890)
275 Burt Thompson House (1896)
283 Origen A. Sessions House (1875)
289 Samuel Nye House (1875)
290 Samuel E. Amidon House (1888)
291 William Grant House (1895)
315 Samuel J. Miller House (1896)
321 William J. Asher House (1899)
333 Second Wilton Little House (1896)
Summit Street
183 Joseph Dwight Chaffee House (1889)
Valley Street
21 St. Joseph’s School (1907)
46 St. Mary Roman Catholic Church (1905)
199 First Congregational Church of Willimantic (1871)
215 William Hastings House (1890)
220 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (1913)
414 Holy Trinity Orthodox Church (1958)
Walnut Street
78 Charles Leonard House (1886)
84 (1887)
Windham Road
76 Dwight Potter House (1881)
88 James Reid House (1880)
100 Eugene Boss House (1882)
Windham Street
74 Mary B. Clark House (1896)
84 Lorenzo Litchfield House (1898)
90 Rev. Edward A. George House (1896)
106 Giles H. Alford House (1894)
122 Wilton Little House (1896)
Links
Windham Historical Society
http://www.windhamhistory.org/
Thread City
http://www.threadcity.org/
Mill Museum (Windham Textile & History Museum)
http://www.millmuseum.org/
Willimantic Victorian Neighborhood Association
http://www.victorianwillimantic.org/
History of Willimantic, The Thread City
http://www.ct.gov/dot/cwp/view.asp?a=3836&q=450758
Willimantic River Alliance
http://www.willimanticriver.org/index.html
Books
The Leading Business Men of Willimantic and Colchester (1890)
The Story of Bacchus and Centennial Souvenir (1876), by Brigham Payne
History of Windham County, Connecticut (1889), edited by Richard M. Bayles
Historic gleanings in Windham County, Connecticut (1899), by Ellen D. Larned, Ellen D.
Hello! Thanks for having this site! My family has been in Willimantic since the Sullivans. I am presently living on OLD Plains rd….and wondering about the history of the road. I’m trying to find when the beginning of Plains (as we now know it) was created and (what is now called Old Plains Rd) was dead ended and no longer crossed the tracks.
I’d appreciate any thoughts or leads
Thanks!
Dave M
Dave,
You might consider looking at historic atlases of Willimantic/Windham County. The local library may have them. Online, you can search the MAGIC Historical Map Collection at UCONN and Historic Map Works for things like this 1869 Atlas of Windham County: http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/749/Windham+County+1869/
Also, if you get a library card with the Connecticut State Library, they have old Sanborn Insurance Atlases that you can access online.
Dan