Litchfield

Buildings Index (scroll down for Bantam)

Beecher Lane
63 Rufus Stillman House I (1950)
66 Huvelle House (1953)

Clark Road
160 Rufus Stillman House II (1965)

Dudley Road
26 Charles Dudley house (1815)

East Street
7 John Collins House (1770)
9 Dr. Smith’s Apothecary Shop (1781)
15 Timothy Skinner House (1787)
46 Charles G. Bennett House (1814)

Milton Road
530 David Welch House (1756)
536 Trinity Episcopal Church (1802)
538 Milton Hall (1900)
548 Milton Congregational Church (1791)

North Street
7 Litchfield County Jail (1812)
10 Charles Butler House (1792)
13 First National Bank of Litchfield (1816)
31 Rose Haven (1888)
47 Benjamin Tallmadge House (1775)
50 Julius Deming House (1793)
62 Edwin McNeil House (1867)
73 Sheldon Tavern (1760)
74 Dr. Reuben Smith House (1770)
84 William G. Peck House (1867)
91 John Allen House (1799)
94 Tallmadge Store/ J.C. Wadsworth House (1784)
102 Charles Webb House (1930)
114 Ludlow Bull House (1828)
115 Dr. Daniel Sheldon House (1785)
124 Deming-Perkins House (1833)
133 F.L. Underwood House (1895)
134 Laurens P. Hickok House (1831)
158 Thomas Trowbridge House (1874)
168 Oliver Boardman House (1785)
179 Lynde Lord House (1771)
180 Charles Deming House (1900)
258 Alexander Catlin House (1778)

Old South Road
Ethan Allen Birthplace (1736)

South Street
7 Noyes Memorial Building (1901)
15 Charles Webb Building (1819)
16 Beckwith Block (1896)
21 Origen S. Seymour Office (1846)
24 Moses Seymour, Jr. House (1817)
25 St. Michael’s Episcopal Church (1921)
35 Phineas Miner Office/Silas N. Bronson Store (1820)
39 Benjamin Hanks House (1780)
44 George M. Woodruff House (1855)
49 St. Anthony of Padua Church (1948)
49 Edward W. Seymour House (1863)
58 Harrison-Woodruff House (1829)
65 Alanson Abbe House (1832)
74 Samuel Seymour House (1784)
77 Buell-Cook House (1877)
82 Tapping Reeve House (1773) and Litchfield Law School (1782)
89 Oliver Wolcott, Sr. House (1754)
113 Ephraim Kirby House (1773)
118 Huntington-Andrews House (1800)
135 Holmes Morse House (1874)
144 Starr Cottage (1885)
145 Elizabeth and Frederick Wiggin House (1871)
150 William F. Baldwin House (1850)
153 Henry B. Graves House (1858)
160 Oliver Wolcott Library (1799)
173 Seymour Cunningham House (1904)
180 Wolcott Institute (1857)
195 Ozias Lewis House (1806)

Topsmead State Forest
Chase Cottage (1923)

Torrington Road
21 First Congregational Church of Litchfield (1829)
571 Captain William Bull Tavern (1745)

West Street
15 Litchfield County Courthouse (1889)
40 First National Bank of Litchfield (1891)
62 Trowbridge-Thoms House (1830)
69 United Methodist Church of Litchfield (1885)

Bantam

Bantam Road
637 Benjamin Bissell House (1849)
782 Milo Hunt House (1790)
802 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (1843)
945 George Kenney House (1846)
1047 Kilbourne House (1873)
1062 Joel Clemons House (1755)
1083 Leonard Kenney House (1829)
1092 George Clemons House (1887)
1104 John Coe House (1903)

Maple Street
202 Henry B. Bissell House (1850)

Tulip Drive
Former Bantam Methodist Church Parsonage (1915)

West Morris Road
4 Bradley Tavern (1782)
41 Jonathan Bishop, Jr. House (1750)

Links

Litchfield Historical Society
http://www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/

A Brief History of Litchfield
http://www.litchfieldct.com/twn/history.html

Hidden in Plain Sight
http://hiddeninplainsightblog.com/

An American Family: The Beecher Tradition
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/2001/beecher/default.htm

Topsmead State Forest
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=325076&depNav_GID=1650

White Memorial Conservation Center
https://www.whitememorialcc.org/

Books

History of the town of Litchfield, Connecticut (1845), by George C. Woodruff

The Mandate of God for Israel’s Advancement: a sermon delivered in Trinity Church, Milton, and St. Michael, Litchfield, Nov. 5, 1845 : being one hundred years since the formation of the Episcopal Church in the town of Litchfield, Conn. (1846), by Isaac Jones

Charter and by-laws of the Village of Litchfield: from its incorporation and organization in 1818 to 1862; together with a list of the public buildings, dwelling houses, offices, stores, shops, &c., therein, in April 1862 (1862)

A genealogical register of the inhabitants of the town of Litchfield, Conn. (1900), by George C. Woodruff

The Litchfield Book of Days (1900), edited by George C. Boswell

Catalogue of books, papers and manuscripts of the Litchfield Historical Society (1906)

Some Historic Sites of Litchfield, Connecticut (1933)

Historic Litchfield, 1721-1907; Being a Short Account of the History of the Old Houses of Litchfield (1907), by Alice T. Bulkeley

An Architectural Monograph on Historic Houses of Litchfield (1919)

Litchfield and Morris Inscriptions; a Record of Inscriptions upon the Tombstones in the Towns of Litchfield and Morris, CT. (1905), transcribed by Charles Thomas Payne

Semi-Centennial of the Litchfield Historical and Antiquarian Society (1908)

Historic Litchfield: Address Delivered at the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Town of Litchfield, August 1, 1920 (1920), by Hon. Morris W. Seymour

Chronicles of a Pioneer School from 1792 to 1833: Being the History of Miss Sarah Pierce and her Litchfield School (1903), compiled by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel; edited by Elizabeth C. Barney Buel

Litchfield County

Litchfield County Centennial Celebration Held at Litchfield, Conn., 13th and 14th of August, 1851 (1851)

In Litchfield Hills. An illustrated work of Litchfield County, in which the Picturesque Features of Each Town in the County are set forth (1897), by George Alson Marvin

Litchfield County Sketches (1906), by Newell Meeker Calhoun

The Clergy of Litchfield County (1909), by Arthur Goodenough

Sketches of the Early Lights of the Litchfield Bar (1860), by Hon. David S. Boardman

The Bench and Bar of Litchfield County, Connecticut, 1709-1909 : Biographical Sketches of Members, History and Catalogue of the Litchfield Law School, Historical Notes (1909), by Dwight C. Kilbourn

Rural life in Litchfield County (1917), by Charles Shepherd Phelps