The pink Horace O. Adams House is on Broad Street in Plainville. This brick house, built in 1859, is transitional from the Greek Revival to the Italianate style, although there have been significant alterations to the building.
Alfred Hall, a lawyer in Portland, was an executive at the Portland brownstone quarries and a grandson of their founder, Joel Hall. His house, on Main Street in Portland, has brownstone walls and was designed in the Greek Revival style by the influential architect A.J. Davis. Today, the house has been converted to serve as a bank.
Before Colchester’s Baptist Church joined with the town’s Congregational Church to form the Colchester Federated Church in 1949, the Baptists worshiped in an 1836 church building, which is still standing at 168 South Main Street. The original steeple was destroyed in the 1938 hurricane and was replaced by the current shortened steeple. The congregation decided to sell the church due to their having a diminishing congregation by the 1940s. The church was sold to Nathan and Israel Liverant, who opened an antiques businesses in the old church and converted it to commercial use. The entrance originally featured a central window flanked by two entry doors, but now has a central door with bow windows on either side. Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques continues to occupy the building today.
Built in 1888, the Alanson Trask House, on Gillett Street in Hartford‘s Asylum Hill neighborhood (pdf), combines elements of the Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. The house has an impressively broad entrance arch and terra-cotta tiles covering the second story.
The Colonial Revival-style house at 100 Norwood Road in the Hartford Golf Club Historic District in West Hartford was built in 1930. The house‘s design was modeled on George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon by architect Walter Crabtree. Another home modeled on Mount Vernon is not too far away at 1430 Asylum Avenue in Hartford.
Built around 1832, the Catherine and Dency Parsons House, on Main Street in Durham, was built for two sisters around 1832. After 1868, the house was owned by the Parmelee family into the early twentieth century. The Greek Revival house has a shed-roofed porch along the front facade, added later. At one time the house had a stuccoed exterior.
The Colin M. Ingersoll House is a grand Chateauesque mansion on Whitney Avenue in New Haven. Designed by Joseph W. Northrop of Bridgeport, it strongly stands out, with its bold colors, tall hip roof, prominent tower and French medieval decoration, including fleurs de lis. The house was built for Colin M. Ingersoll, Jr., chief engineer of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He was the son of Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819-1903), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives. The house is now used for offices.
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