At 15 Liberty Street in Clinton is a Federal/Greek Revival house. The National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for the Clinton Village Historic District estimates its date as c.1830. The historic marker, currently on the house, bears the date 1799 and describes it as the homestead of John Rossetter 3rd and Elizabeth Buell. Interestingly, just down the street, at 3 Liberty Street, is the 1734 home of John Rossetter, which passed into the Buell family around 1800.
The White Hills Baptist Church was built in 1839 on School Street in the White Hills section of Shelton. Ferris Drew of Carmel, NY, who had purchased part of a farm in White Hills in 1837, provided land for the church and later additional land for a cemetery. At first the church did not have its own pastor, so pastors from other towns served on alternate Sundays until 1852. The church closed for regular Sunday services in 1916. Today, it is maintained by the Upper White Hills Cemetery Asoociation and is used for community events.
At 62 East Main Street in Clinton, is a house built in 1783 by George Eliot, a farmer and likely a descendent of John Eliot, the seventeenth-century Puritan missionary to the Indians of Natick, Massachusetts. In the 1770s and 1780s, George Eliot was chosen moderator for a number of important town meetings in Killingworth, of which Clinton was then a part. The house, which remained for generations in the Eliot family, was later moved back from the street line when land was given to the town to straighten the road. Around that time, the building’s large central chimney was removed, a front porch, since removed, was added, and the house was altered to the Greek Revival style.
Dating to about 1850, the Isaac B. Bradley House, at 2 Unionville Avenue, is one of Plainville’s best preserved nineteenth-century farmhouses. Isaac B. Bradley was born in Northfield in Litchfield in 1810 and died in 1885. In 1835, he married Martha Judd Cowles of Farmington, who died in 1847.
The Fourth Ecclesiastical Society of Windsor, or North Society, was established in 1752 and a meetinghouse was soon built near the Scantic River. In the late 1790s, there were intense debates over the issue of enlarging the building. A decision was finally reached to expand the meetinghouse, but it burned down on April 20, 1802. There was then a violent contoversy and accusations of arson, but a new meetinghouse on the same site was soon completed. In 1768, East Windsor had separated from the town of Windsor and in 1845 South Windsor separated fom East Windsor. The Congregational church in the East Windsor Hill section of the new town of South Windsor had been the First Church of East Windsor, but then became the First Church of South Windsor, while the former North Society Church in the Scantic section of East Windsor became the First Church of East Windsor. The church‘s exterior walls were extended in 1842. That same year, interior floor space was also enlarged, when the the empty space between the balconies above the main floor was floored over, creating a new upper floor for religious services. The lower floor was later known as Library Hall, because the town’s public library was located there from 1907 to 1920.
At 87 Main Street in Stonington Borough is an 1851 house built for Judge Benjamin Pomeroy. The house was constructed using granite left over from the construction of two local landmarks: the stone John F. Trumbull factory and the Stonington Breakwater. The house may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
The house at 398 Main Street in the Pine Meadow section of New Hartford was built in 1834 as a Greek Revival house. Alterations in the Italianate style, including the addition of the front porch, were made around 1874. By that time, the house was owned by Anson J. Allen. With his brother, Samuel Allen, Anson owned a brass foundry begun by their brother Philemon. Selling the foundry in 1867, Samuel, as senior partner, and Anson operated a mercantile business in Pine Meadow. Samuel’s nearby Greek Revival house is at 405 Main Street. Anson J. Allen was born in Barkhamsted, educated at the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield (now Suffield Academy), and served in the state legislature. His house is now a bed & breakfast called the Pine Meadow House.
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