Benjamin Case House (1884)

The large Victorian-era house at 270 Cherry Brook Road in Canton was built c. 1884-1888 for Benjamin Case, a banker who in 1872 was one of the founders of the Canton Trust Company in Collinsville. The company, which closed its doors in 1916, had a building in Collinsville, built in 1904 and torn down in the 1960s. Many members of the Case family built homes and had farms in the Canton Center Area. Benjamin Case owned Maplewood Farm and was an incorporator of the Canton Creamery. Case was also a founder of Canton’s first telephone company. The house’s chestnut paneled study was used as the switchboard room. The house, with its eighteen rooms, was remodeled by Case’s daughter Ruby into three apartments in 1945.