Glastonbury’s first Methodist parish was formed in 1796 and its first church was erected at Wassuc in 1810. Methodists in South Glastonbury built their own church in 1828. In 1847 the east parish built a new edifice on Manchester Road. After that church was destroyed in a fire, a new East Glastenbury Methodist Church was built in 1886. Now called the Glastonbury United Methodist Church, it is located at 494/508 Manchester Road in East Glastonbury.
The house at 1155 Main Street in Glastonbury was built c. 1800 and served as a tavern, complete with a second-floor ballroom, in the early nineteenth century. Run by Elijah Miller, whose family had owned the property since the early eighteenth century and had an earlier tavern, it was a stopping place for travelers who had crossed to the east side of the Connecticut River on the Nayaug ferry. The house has an ell that may have been an earlier house. It also has a second entrance on the south side, not visible in the photo above. The front portico is a c. 1946 addition.
The James Wright House is located at 1597 Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury. It is a center-chimney house built in 1761. The house is also known as the Treat Tavern. A sign for the Treat Tavern is on display in Glastonbury’s Museum on the Green.
At 1696 Main Street in Glastonbury is a center-chimney house built circa 1795 for Jehiel Hale, who had married his cousin Mercy Hale the year before. The property was deeded to Jehiel by his father Theodore Hale in 1797. A later Hale to live in the house was William Turner Hale, a well-known farmer who also had an ice business. William Turner Hale father, Hezekiah Hale, was a sailor who sailed around the world three times and was on the whaling trip made famous in Richard Henry Dana‘s book Two Years Before the Mast (1840).
Built circa 1820, the Greek Revival House at 1306 Main Street in Glastonbury was once part of a farm that consisted of 70 acres both sides of Main Street. This included the Old Cider Mill across the street. The farm was once owned by the Hale family and Roger Hale had a house on the site of the current one. The property was later acquired by Hale’s nephew, Asa Hale Miller. Lloyd Holland later lived in the house and operated the Cider Mill.
On April 7, 1878, Bishop Thomas Galberry blessed the cornerstone of a new Catholic chapel on Hopewell Road in South Glastonbury. It was a mission of St. Mary’s Church in East Hartford and was dedicated to St. Augustine on November 17, 1878. St. Augustine became a parish in March 1902.
Currently dedicated to office use, the Italianate house at 2534 Main Street in Glastonbury was built circa 1852. It was originally the home of Asa Welles, who may be the same Asa Welles (1821-1869) who was a silversmith.