Titus Case House (1840)

In 1840, Capt. Titus Case (1769-1845) erected the house at 144 Cherry Brook Road in Canton. This had previously been the location of the home of Sgt. Daniel Case II, who’d arrived in the 1740s and built the first gristmill in town. Calvin Case also operated a mill, located west of the house, that had a 50-foot water wheel. His descendants used the house as a summer home. A historical case in the Canton Center Congregational Church was given in memory of his daughter, Kate Minerva Marsh (1836-1888). A later owner was Jeremiah Crowley, who made butter in the nearby creamery. The house’s cupola was added after the Civil War.

Henry B. Graves House (1858)

Henry Bennett Graves (1823-1891) was a lawyer in Litchfield who served several terms in the state General Assembly. He was also executive secretary to Governor Henry Dutton and he married the governor’s daughter, Mary Dutton. His second wife was Sarah Smith of Morris. In 1858 Graves built a Greek Revival house at 153 South Street in Litchfield. The house was sold to Cornelius M. Ray of Morris in 1865.  After his death, the house passed to his daughter, Clara Belle Ray.  The Ray family made alterations to the house, including the addition of the mansard roof and the south bay. Elizabeth Shields Hamlin bought the property in 1910. In the collection of the Litchfield Historical Society are blueprints for the building of a garage, an extension of the dining room, and other alterations to the house, made by Ross & McNeil, architects of New York. They were hired by Elizabeth’s husband, Elbert B. Hamlin in 1915. After her husband’s death in 1936, Elizabeth Hamlin sold the house in 1937.

James Gladwin House (1810)

James Gladwin (1774-1850), a farmer in the Higganum section of Haddam, purchased a tract of land along what is now Saybrook Road in 1806. Soon thereafter, around 1810, he built the house at 352 Saybrook Road for his new wife, Margaret Tripp. They had twelve children, nine boys and three girls. After Gladwin’s death, the other siblings quitclaimed the house to his youngest daughter, Julia Ann Taylor, wife a Warren Taylor, a farmer who also owned a livery stable. The house was sold out of the family in 1875. Julia Gladwin Taylor later lived in Clinton and died in 1909 at the age of 85.

George Greenman House (1898)

According to the nomination for the Mechanic Street Historic District in Stonington, the house at 117 West Broad Street in Pawcatuck is known as the George Greenman House. This George Greenman must have been related to the Greenman family of shipbuilders in Mystic and Westerly. In 1827 Silas Greenman, 3rd had joined with his brother George in a ship-building business in Mystic, but he moved to Westerly, Rhode Island (adjacent to Pawcatuck) in 1834. George continued shipbuilding in Mystic, partnering with his brothers, Clark and Thomas. Silas established a shipyard in Westerly called Silas Greenman & Company. He was later joined by his son, George S. Greenman, born in 1826. Could the owner of the house at 117 West Broad Street have been a grandson or other relative?

Planter & Porter Boarding House (1854)

In 1848, William Planter and Samuel Q. Porter purchased the Stone and Carrington paper mill in Unionville. They soon built another mill and in 1860 organized the Planter & Porter Manufacturing Company, which produced fine writing paper and book paper. As one of Unionville’s largest employers, they needed housing for their workers and erected at least five rental houses in the neighborhood. They erected the rooming and boarding house at 28 Elm Street in 1854. Franklin C. Chamberlin, a Hartford lawyer, bought the building in 1878 and continued to rent its rooms out to local factory workers. In 1889 the house became the residence of Thomas Mulrooney, an Irish immigrant who worked at the American Writing Paper Company (which had acquired Planter & Porter in 1877), and his wife Mary Jane Mulrooney, who was born in Burlington to Irish immigrant parents. Mrs. Mulrooney rented out rooms in the house to supplement the family’s income. The house remained in the family until 1941.