Dating to about 1792, the house at 1460 Meriden Avenue in Southington was built for Avery Clark (1769-1850) and Anna Walkley Clark (1775-1856), who came to Southington from Durham. The house remained in the Clark family for five generations.
Avery Clark House (1792)
My Aunt, Esther Goodwill, was a nurse at Hartford Hospital,never married, and was raised by her grandmother Emily Clark Lee in this house, and she lived there until her death in 1978. She was the great-great-great granddaughter of Avery. I visited her there in the summers when I was a child.
I believe a lady by the last name of Parliman ( spelling wrong) lived here and gave stencil lessons. I worked with her there for several years. She later moved to Vermont.