Based in Plymouth, Shelton & Tuttle Company was a successful manufacturer of buggies and other horse-drawn vehicles in the nineteenth century. The company’s founder, Augustus C. Shelton, built an elaborate Greek Revival house at 663 Main Street circa 1850 (or was the house built earlier, in 1825, and Shelton moved in later?). Shelton had served an apprenticeship as a wheelwright in New Haven before returning to his hometown of Plymouth in 1837. He set up his carriage factory, which was run by his partner, Byron Tuttle, after his death in 1880.
Augustus C. Shelton House (1825)
The house was built in 1825 by Henry C. Smith, a clockmaker who produced tens of thousands of OG style clocks out of a factory that once stood in the back yard. Smith sold the property to A. C. Shelton in 1850 who opened up a monstrous carriage factory across the street. The Plymouth Historical Society has on loan, a decalcomania print of this house on glass in a clock dating back to 1845.