The Abner Hinckley House, 105 Church Street in Guilford, was built in 1871. The house has a Colonial Revival porch, probably added in the early twentieth century, which replaced an earlier porch (that was probably similar to that of the house at 72 Church Street). The house now serves as psychologist and orthodontist offices.
The formation of the Methodist Church in Bethel grew out of a religious revival in the 1830s. With churches in Danbury being too crowded, in 1837 Methodists in Bethel began meeting in a private home. In 1847-1848, the congregation erected their own hall on a site where a Masonic Hall would later be built. Work on the current Bethel United Methodist Church, located at 141 Greenwood Avenue, began in 1860 and the building was dedicated in August, 1861. It is a stylistically eclectic edifice that features a Greek Revival cornice and pilasters, Italianate round-arched windows, and a Gothic Revival tower. The church had to be restored after a fire in 1884. The steeple was also rebuilt after a lightning strike in 1971.
The First Ecclesiastical Society of Winchester was established on May 4, 1768 and the first meeting house was erected the following year. On October 11, 1785, Dr. Josiah Everitt deeded land for a new meeting house and a green. After a dispute between residents of the center and northwest sections of the town over where to erect the new meeting house, it was eventually built on the Winchester Center Green in 1786. In 1840 the Society decided to erect a new meeting house, which was dedicated June of 1842. The First Ecclesiastical Society of Winchester was consolidated to form the Winchester Center Congregational Church on October 9, 1954. Two years later, the church was moved 40 feet to a new foundation. A Pastor’s Study was added in 1962. To celebrate the building’s 150th anniversary, the church was rededicated on June 28, 1992.
Deacon Elisha Case (1755-1839) built the house at 45 Lawton Road in Canton in 1805-1806. Elisha Case is one of the founding fathers of the town of Canton because he signed the petition to make Canton a separate town from Simsbury in 1806. His house was later owned by George Mills, Newell Minor (c. 1855) and by 1869 by Wells Lawton (1830-1898), who married Eliza Higley. It was then the home of Wells’ son, Fred Lawton, who was born c. 1870. Lawton’s widow, Helen Gilbert Lawton, lived in the house for many years after his death. In 1919, Fred Lawton urged his friend, James Lowell, Sr., to purchase the Higley farm. Lowell would build the Canton Public Golf Course there in 1931.
The house at 298-300 Naubuc Street in Glastonbury is listed in the Curtisville Historic District as the Albert Bogue House, built c. 1840. There was an Albert A. Bogue, who held such offices as Treasurer and Justice of the Peace in Glastonbury. He was also a Mason and wrote the History of Daskam Lodge No. 86, A. F. & A. M., Glastonbury, Conn., From A.L. 5858 A.L. 5900 (1900).
The house at 16 Main Street in South Windham was built c. 1840 by Elisha H. Holmes, Sr. (1799-1886). As related in Vol. I of the Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties (1903), Holmes
came to Windham in 1818, and followed his trade of cabinetmaker, also engaging in farming. Later he had a grist and plaster mill at South Windham. At one time he engaged largely in dredging operations, both in salt water and the Great Lakes. His death, which occurred Sept. 21, 1886, was regarded as a loss throughout the community. In politics he was a Democrat, and he represented the town of Windham in the State Legislature, also holding local offices. His wife, Lydia, was a daughter of Amos Dennison Allen, a cabinet—maker of Windham, with whom Mr. Holmes learned his trade.
In 1833, Elisha H. Holmes inherited land from his in-laws, the Allen family, which he sold to George Spafford, a partner in Spafford, Phelps and Co., which made paper manufacturing machines. The company failed after the Panic of 1837 and was acquired by Charles Smith and Harvey Winchester. In 1837 and 1838, Holmes sold additional land to the new partners, who were expanding the company. In 1872, Holmes built a house for his son, Elisha H. Holmes, Jr., at 4 Main Street in South Windsor.
Chauncey Spencer was a builder who erected a number of tenement houses in the village of Ivoryton in Essex. In 1856 he acquired the land at 3 Main Street in Ivoryton from Dan Parker, whose daughter Temperance he had married in 1853. He built the house on the property by 1860. After the Temperance died in 1892, Chauncey married her sister, Cornelia. The home remained in the Spencer family until 1963. (more…)
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