Carpet Mill Tenement (1840)

At 40 Prospect Street in Thompsonville in Enfield is a Greek Revival tenement building built c. 1840. It is one of many tenements in various styles in the neighborhood that were constructed for workers at the Hartford Carpet Company mills between the 1840s and 1920s. Here’s another of 40 Prospect Street:

Among the similar tenements on the same street are the one at 58 Prospect Street (below), built c. 1860:

There is also a house at 29 Prospect Street, built c. 1840, that may or may not have been officially a mill tenement:

This house, at 45-47 Prospect Street, was built c. 1865: