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Buildings Index

Church Drive
25 Moses Bradley House (1875)
43 Hitchcock-Phillips House (1785)
77 Rev. Joseph Whiting House (1835)
85 Congregational Church Parsonage (1913)
111 First Congregational Church of Cheshire (1826)

Cook Hill Road
62 C. B. Bradley House (1740)

Cornwall Avenue
96 James R. Lanyon House (1903)
107 (1855)
108 Clark-Speake-Hotchkiss House (1880)
152 Amasa Preston House (1828)
214 William Moon House (1850)
224 Richard Brown House (1850)

Country Club Road
9 Masonic Temple (1900)

Fenn Road
257 Benedict Ives Homestead (1750)
280 Deacon Joseph Ives House (1724)

Highland Avenue
84 Borden House (1810)

Main Street
3 United Methodist Church – Temple Beth David (1834)
10 Cheshire Academy: Bowden Hall (1796)
29 Humiston School (1912)
52 (1840)
59 St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (1840)
84 Amos Baldwin House (1800)
84 Johnson Carriage House (1872)
87 Ebenezer Bunnell House (1740)
92 Loren Humiston House (1854)
125 Bishop Abraham Jarvis House (1799)

Maple Avenue
226 Victorian House Restaurant (1871)
405 Benjamin Hall House (1790)
551 Charles Chauncey Hall House (1750)

South Brooksvale Road
500 Brookside (1898)
532 Enos Brooks House (1732)
568 The Glebe House (1851)
594 The Stone Cottage (1887)

South Main Street
84 Cheshire Town Hall (1867)
137 Abijah Beach Tavern (1814)
163 Russell Cooke House (1801)
191 Dr. Thomas Cornwall House (1810)
200 Squire Beach House (1762)
219 Samuel A. Foot House (1767)
242 Annis Williams House (1895)
273 (1850)
289 Deacon Stephen Hotchkiss House (1730)
589 Josiah Hotchkiss House (1744)
744 Hull-Hitchcock House (1764)
774 Dr. John Hull House (1764)
1151 Amasa Hitchcock House (1800)
1393 Elmer Ives House (1903)

Wallingford Road
29 Dr. William L. Foot House (1780)

West Main Street
240 Augustus C. Peck House (1845)
253 Daniel Judd House (1875)
254 Frank E. Aldrich House (1920)
276 Irwin T. Guilford House (1879)
328 Arad Welton House (1850)
345 Warren Doolittle House (1860)
402 Samuel Hitchcock House (1850)
571 David Badger House (1790)

Cheshire

Links

Cheshire Historical Society
http://www.cheshirehistory.org/

Brochure of the Historic District Commission of Cheshire
http://www.cheshirehistory.org/hist_dist_comm/hdsc_brochure.htm

Cheshire Academy
http://www.cheshireacademy.org/

Books

History of Cheshire, Connecticut, from 1649 to 1840, including Prospect, which, as Columbia parish, was a part of Cheshire until 1829 (1912), by Joseph Perkins Beach

Old historic homes of Cheshire, Connecticut: with an account of the early settlement of the town, description of its churches, academy and old town cemetery, places of interest–Roaring Brook, Scott’s Rock, Barytes and Copper Mines, ancient trees, etc. (1895), compiled by Edwin R. Brown; illustrated by John R. Paddock

History of Wallingford, Conn., From its Settlement in 1670 to the present time, including Meriden, which was one of its parishes until 1806, and Cheshire, which was incorporated in 1780 (1870), by Charles Henry Stanley Davis

History of New Haven County, Connecticut, Vol. 1 (1892) (Chap. XII “The Town of Cheshire”), edited by J. L. Rockey

A Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County, Volume 1 (1918), (Chapter by XXXIX “Cheshire”), by Everett G. Hill

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2 thoughts on “Cheshire”

  • Helen Wilson
    January 20, 2023 at 7:58 pm
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    Do you have info on signs that may be purchased for signs of buildings on the registry?

  • DanielPost author
    January 21, 2023 at 12:59 am
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    Helen,
    You might try contacting the Cheshire Historical Society.

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