48 Pompey Hollow Road, Ashford (1815)

48 Pompey Hollow Road, Ashford

As described in yesterday’s post, St Philip the Apostle Church in Ashford is a Catholic parish established in 1921. Rev. John Joseph Nilan of Hartford sent Father William J. Dunn to a 135-acre farm he had acquired, land where the church would eventually be built in the 1930s. Until then, Father Dunn resided in an old farmhouse, 48 Pompey Hollow Road, in which he partitioned off a section to serve as a chapel. He had to endure local prejudice against Catholics, but eventually succeeded, with the help of the local Catholic community, in erecting the church. I don’t know who built the Federal-style farmhouse, but it appears to have been erected in 1815. Today the house is home to Antiques at Pompey Hollow.

Ashford Academy (1825)

Ashford Academy

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Ashford Green was the active center of the Town of Ashford. Today, only one building survives from that time: the Ashford Academy, built in 1825. The first floor served as one of the town’s district schoolhouses (the Fifth School District). This schoolhouse was already being planned when a group of local citizens raised money by private subscription to add a second floor for use as a private academy for more advanced students. Academy sessions were held until 1875, after which the building served exclusively as a public school until 1949. Today the Ashford Historical Society uses the building for educational activities and to display some of their artifacts.

Ashford

Ashford

Buildings Index

Ashford Center Road
125 Byles Homestead – Henrietta House (1722)
200 First Magyar Reformed Church (1930)

Fitts Road
10 Ashford Academy (1825)

Pompey Hollow Road
25 Knowlton Memorial Hall (1924)
38 United Baptist Church -Living Proof Church (1848)
48 (1814)
64 St Philip the Apostle Church (1937)

Tremko Lane
25 Tremko-Stebbins House (1773)

Westford Road
14 Mixer Tavern (1710)

Links

The Ashford Historical Society
http://www.ashfordhistoricalsociety.org/

Books

A Deserted Village (1895), by Henry Sherman Boutell

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Andover

An 1849 house in Andover

Ashford

A house in Ashford

Berlin

121 Sunset Lane
A house in Berlin

Bethel

Plumtrees School (also on this site)
The Putnam House Restaurant (also on this site)

Bethlehem

Architectural detail of the Bellamy-Ferriday House (the house is featured on this site)
A house in Bethlehem
Another house in Bethlehem

Bloomfield

An 1810 house in Bloomfield

Bozrah

Old factory housing

Branford

Beachside shingled houses in Branford (featured on this site here and here)

Burlington

A house in Burlington

Canton

456 Cherry Brook Road

Chaplin

115 Chaplin Street (also featured on this site)
127 Chaplin Street (featured on this site)

Cheshire

43 Highland Avenue (also on this site)
366 West Main Street
A house in Cheshire

Chester

A house in Chester
Another house in Chester

Clinton

A view of buildings on Main Street in Clinton (featured on this site here and here)

Colchester

187 South Main Street (also on this site)

Deep River

A house in Deep River

East Hartford

99 Olmsted Street

Eastford

180 Eastford Road

Enfield

1684 King Street (also on this site)
Town Hall (also pictured here)

Glastonbury

194 Hubbard Street

Hartford

Chamberlin Carriage House (also on this site)
Connecticut River at Hartford

Higganum

375 Saybrook Road

Middlefield

2 High Street

Mystic

18 Denison Avenue
Exterior of the Buckingham-Hall House at Mystic Seaport
Inside the Buckingham-Hall House at Mystic Seaport
A house in Mystic/Groton

Noank

11 Chesebro Street: image 01; image 02
15 Church Street
3 Front Street (AKA 20 Cove Street, featured on this site)

Norwalk

Parish House of the United Methodist Church

Norwich

Next to the Congregational Church, 81 East Town Street
8 Vergason Avenue

Old Mystic

26 Main Street (also on this site)
An old House in Old Mystic
Another old house in Old Mystic

Pawcatuck

43 Mechanic Street
34 Moss Street
29 Palmer Street
140 West Broad Street (also on this site)
151 West Broad Street (also on this site)

Plymouth

43 North Street (also on this site)

South Norwalk

139-135 Washington Street (commercial block)
50 Water Street (commercial block)

South Windsor

Aaron Bissell House (1813), 1891 Old Main Street, East Windsor Hill (also on this site)

Wallingford

418 Church Street in Yalesville
95 North Main Street (Firehouse)

West Hartford

Delamar Hotel
Japanese Festival in Blue Back Square

Wethersfield

182 Broad Street
Hallway of the Isaac Stevens House (house featured on this site)
Old Burying Ground in Wethersfield
A house in Wethersfield
Connecticut River at Wethersfield

Winchester Center

Winchester Center Congregational Church (also on this site)

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