The house at 41 West Morris Road, in the Bantam section of Litchfield, was built between 1742 and 1755 (the first mention of the house is in 1755) by Jonathan Bishop, Jr. The left section may be the original part of the house (so the chimney would have been on the right side), with the right section added later. The original chimney would have been much larger.
In 1887, H. S. Patterson of Torrington erected the two-family residence at 1092 Bantam Road, in the Bantam section of Litchfield, for George Clemons. The latter, who owned the house for many years, but only lived in it himself for two years, later served as Litchfield selectman. The house originally had a front porch, with decorative detailing, that extended across the entire front facade.
The house at 87 Chaplin Street in Chaplin has been variously dated to 1825, 1832, 1855 and 1865. It was once the home of E. W. Day. Since the house at 93 Chaplin Street, on the other side of Tower Hill Road, was home to Deacon Darius Knight, the intersection was known as Knight and Day corner.
The building at 43 Main Street in Noank was built before 1900 as a summer kitchen. In 1918, it was acquired by Jane Carson, who moved it to its current location on Main Street to use as her general store. Carson’s Store, which she first opened in 1907, had two earlier locations before it settled at 43 Main Street: the first was at the foot of Main Street and the second, which had burned down, was at the opposite end of Main Street next to the railroad tracks. Her son, Bernard Carson, later ran the store. He installed a lunch counter and bar stools in 1954. David Blacker acquired the store and restaurant in 1979. The structure had been sitting on the ground, but he added a foundation underneath. There were news stories at the start of 2014 that Carson’s Store had closed, but it is now open again, operated by David Blacker’s son, Andrew Blacker.
Andrew C. Colegrove, who operated an electrical appliance business in Mystic, was killed in a plane crash in California on August 24, 1951. The Colegrove Building at Mystic Seaport was built in 1952 as a memorial in his memory. Since 1962, the half of the building that faces the Mystic River has housed a printing exhibit, called the Mystic Press Printing Office. The original Mystic Press newspaper, started in 1873, had an office at West Main and Pearl Streets. The other half of the Colegrove Building contains a Ship Carver exhibit.
A building that was first erected c. 1842 as a barn on the property of Thomas Greenman, youngest of the three brothers who founded the George Greenman & Co. Shipyard in Mystic, now houses the cooperage exhibit at Mystic Seaport. Coopers manufactured round wooden containers called barrels or casks, used both at sea and ashore.
The house at 35 Tolland Green in Tolland was built circa 1820 by Calvin Willey as a store. Willey was a lawyer who served as Judge of Probate, representative in the state General Assembly and United States Senator. In 1940, the former store was purchased as a summer home by New York Times columnist Zoe Beckley, who called it “Cubbyhouse.”
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