The building at 42 Bank Street in New London was built in 1833 in the hope that it might be used as a federal customs house. In the end the building, which resembles a Federal and Greek Revival-style row house, became home to the Whaling Bank. The bank, the third oldest in New London, was founded in 1833 by a group of whaling merchants that included Joseph Lawrence. It became the National Whaling Bank in 1864 and remained in existence until 1943.
The attractive blue Greek Revival house at 436 North Main Street in Suffield was built in 1834. The front porch is no doubt a later addition.
The house at 89 Maple Street in Ellington was built in 1837. It is referred to as the John H. Brockway House in the Nomination for the Ellington Center Historic District. John Hall Brockway (1801-1870) was a lawyer and Whig politician. He served as member of the State House of Representatives from 1832 to 1848 and as a state senator in 1834. He served in the United States Congress from 1839 to 1843 and was later prosecuting attorney for Tolland County from 1849 to 1867. In 1896, Miss Sarah K. Gilbert left the house in her will to become a parsonage (the Gilbert Memorial Parsonage) of the Ellington Congregational Church. It was the parsonage until 1973 and is now a private residence.
In 1851, Judge Austin O. Gallup (1828-1896) purchased the Greek Revival house and farm at 320 Hartford Road in Salem, where he lived until his death. In the 1860s, Gallup made two additions to the house, which had been built around 1840, by joining structures from other properties. He also added a carriage house in 1866 and a barn in 1867. Fred Washburn purchased the farm from Julia Raymond Douglas in 1915 and in 1919 passed it to Alice Mitchell and her husband Edward, who ran a small dairy farm. Alice served as Judge of Probate and Edward as First Selectman. The farm later passed to their daughter, Margaret Mitchell, who deeded it to her niece, Anne Duncan. Anne and her husband, Joe Duncan opened the Salem Herbfarm in 1997.
The Greek Revival house at 1060 Enfield Street in Enfield was built c. 1840 (according to the Historic Resources Inventory of Thompsonville) or perhaps as late as 1860.
Across from the Town Hall and the Congregational Church, next to the Green in Middlebury, is a former Methodist Church, built in 1832. The building was acquired by the neighboring Westover School in 1923. Inside, the pulpit was replaced by a colonial revival fireplace. It was used as a student “tea bureau” until 1932, then as the school library from 1935 to 1984. Now known as Hilliard House, it is used by the school for its alumnae and development departments and to house the school archives.
The house at 144 South Main Street in Colchester was built around 1840 by John Kellogg, who sold it in 1842. It was purchased in 1854 by Philo Gillett, who had been renting it for some years. A merchant from Boston, Gillett formed the firm of Wheeler and Gillett in Colchester in partnership with Joshua B. Wheeler. Gillett died in 1858 and his widow in 1862, after which the house was sold to Samuel D. Tilden of Yonkers, New York, who added an ornamental wrought—iron fence, sadly since removed, along the front of the property. In 1878 the house was acquired by Henry C. Morgan, who served as Assistant Quartermaster-General and then Commissary-General of the State of Connecticut and used the house as a country home. The house then had other owners and since 1954 has housed the Belmont Funeral Home.
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