The house at 222 Saybrook Road, in the Higganum section of Haddam, was built in 1895. It is a good example of a vernacular house that has applied Victorian-era decoration and an Eastlake style porch. Adella Tabor bought the land in 1893 and built the house two years later. In 1908, the house was inherited by two sisters, Ella Virginia Burr and Abby Burr, who both died in 1924. The house was then sold out of the family by their niece, Ruth A. Burr.
Construction of the house at 25 Vine Street in New Britain, which displays Victorian Gothic and Eastlake elements, has been dated to 1867, c. 1875, or, in A Walk Around Walnut Hill (1975), between 1885 and 1890. That same book indicates the house was built by Jacob J. and Charlotte Ritz (Jacob Ritz was a city councilman in 1882) and was purchased by George Tyler, an engineer, about 1900. The property includes an original carriage house.
In 2013, local Pawcatuck teen Connor Beverly wrote a book entitled On the Corner of William and West Broad: A True Example of Aristocracy in Pawcatuck. It details the history of the house at 140 West Broad Street, which was built in 1887 and was in the Eastlake style. Beverly was inspired to write the book by a package of letters and photo negatives he purchased on eBay. They were formerly the property of Sally Frankenstein, a young girl who lived in the house. Later owned by the Hemphill family, who sold it in the early 1970s, the house was restored in the 1980s and was for some years the Sage House Bed and Breakfast.
Update: As noted in the comment below, the house was built based on a mail order design by Michigan architect D. S. Hopkins. It is very similar to the house by Hopkins in the illustration below:
The Queen Anne Victorian house at 187 South Main Street in Colchester was built c. 1886. It is listed in the Colchester Village Historic District as the Retta Buell House. Could this be I. Loretta Tew, who in 1877 married Harley P. Buell, the druggist?
Today is the Eleventh Anniversary of Historic Buildings of Connecticut! Pictured above is the house at 2 Jackson Avenue in Mystic. Built in 1882, its design was influenced by the popular Eastlake style. It was the home of of Francis Manning, a banker, and his wife Ann.
The Dudley House, located at 56 State Street in North Haven, was built in 1896. With its Eastlake-style porch and decorated bargeboards, it is an example of the work of local builder Solomon Linsley.
