Colchester

The Greek Revival house at 52 Broadway in Colchester was built in 1842 and was the home of Dr. Ezekiel W. Parsons. He was a doctor and a member of the Connecticut Medical Society. He was also a member of the American Colonization Society and the Home Missionary Society. Dr. Parsons married Sally Clark in 1822.

The Horace Smith House is a large Greek Revival-style residence located at 12 Broadway in Colchester. It was built c. 1840-1868.

Pomeroy Hall, a merchant and tinsmith in Colchester, purchased a building lot adjacent to his house in 1839. Over several years he built several new houses, one of which, built around 1848 at 67 Hayward Avenue, he sold to Roxy Lathrop, widow of Charles Lathrop of Lebanon. After the death of Mrs. Lathrop in 1875, the house was acquired by Henry Foote, a farmer. After his death in 1884 and that of his widow, Mary Ann Lamb Foote, in 1885, the house was sold to William E. Strong. The Strong family occupied the house until 1946.

At 156 South Main Street in Colchester is a Greek Revival house with Colonial Revival additions that include an elliptical attic light, long gabled wing on the right side and a one-story veranda. The house was built circa 1840 to 1850, being purchased in the latter year from David Carroll by Dr. Solomon Everest Swift (1819-1895), a dentist who practiced homeopathic medicine. After Dr. Swift‘s death, his widow Almira Lathrop Swift (1822-1904) (who had attended Bacon Academy) lived in the house until her own death. Their daughter, Caroline Swift Willard (1863-1950), probably made the Colonial Revival alterations/additions between 1896 and 1919, the year she eventually sold the house, having moved to Redlands, California. From the late 1990s until 2006, the house was used as a gift shop and is now lawyers’ offices.

Shubal Smith, an attorney, purchased property on Towne Street (now now 176 South Main Street) in Colchester in 1839 and around that time constructed a Greek Revival house. By 1854 the house was owned jointly by Smith and Enoch Brown and passed to Deacon Smith’s son George Smith in 1868. The house was sold to Norman Palmer in 1879. His heirs, Isabelle A. Worthington, Flora Brown and Etta Miner, sold the house to John Condren in 1912. The house’s front porch was added sometime after 1903.