Greenhaven Inn (1901)

It looks like I posted this building too late. It was demolished a few years ago! A new building was completed on the site in 2022.

Later home to a business and much altered, the building at 595 Greenhaven Road in Pawcatuck was once a restaurant called the Greenhaven Inn. I’m not sure when the house was built (if it’s Colonial or Colonial-Revival). The real estate websites give a date of 1901 but that may not be very precise.

Postcards of the Greenhaven Inn

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Kent (1826)

St. Andrew’s Church in Kent.

The earliest Episcopal/Anglican worship in western Connecticut began in the town of Kent in 1763, served by itinerant missionary priests ordained in England. They worshipped in a now lost St. Thomas’s Church built on Kent Plain sometime between 1768 and 1772. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Parish was first organized as St John’s Parish in 1806. In 1819, Reverend George B. Andrews took charge of the Episcopal congregations in both Kent and nearby Marbledale (in New Preston). He was soon serving congregations in Caanan and Salisbury as well. His wealthy wife contributed greatly to funding the erection of churches in these parishes. The current church building in Kent, located at the corner of modern Routes 7 and 341, was constructed in 1826 of fieldstone in the Gothic Revival style. In gratitude to Rev. and Mrs. Andrews, the parish was renamed from St. John’s to St. Andrew’s.

In the 1870s the chancel and sacristy were added to the west side of the building and the bell tower’s original crenelated top was replaced with a pointed steeple. The church underwent major renovations in 2014.

Thomas Eldredge House (1842)

31 Gravel Street in Mystic

Thomas Eldredge, and his brothers George and Elam, purchased land on Gravel Street in Mystic from their father in 1842. Thomas erected the house at 31 Gravel Street soon after. The three brothers were all shipmasters and mariners. Thomas was a captain for over 45 years and was known as “the Commodore of the Mallory line.” He sold the house when he retired. He moved to New York and maintained a summer home in Mystic on Prospect Hill. After a fire in 1879 the house’s original roof was replaced with a Mansard roof.