Morse Richtmeyer of the Ideal Laundry was the first resident of the house at 38 Spring Street in Bristol. The house was built circa 1886 by the noted Bristol builder Joel T. Case. In later years, the house’s Italianate cupola was removed, but more recently it has been restored.
Based in Plymouth, Shelton & Tuttle Company was a successful manufacturer of buggies and other horse-drawn vehicles in the nineteenth century. The company’s founder, Augustus C. Shelton, built an elaborate Greek Revival house at 663 Main Street circa 1850 (or was the house built earlier, in 1825, and Shelton moved in later?). Shelton had served an apprenticeship as a wheelwright in New Haven before returning to his hometown of Plymouth in 1837. He set up his carriage factory, which was run by his partner, Byron Tuttle, after his death in 1880.
Known as the Blakeslee House, the building at 63 North Street in Plymouth is a colonial Cape-type house, built in 1780.
The Colonial Revival house at 734 Clinton Avenue in Bridgeport was built in 1916 for Lacey R. Blackman, a real estate and insurance agent. The house is now used for offices.
The borough of Thompsonville in Enfield grew up around the carpet mill established by Orrin Thompson in 1829. His son Henry Graham Thompson later opened a stockingnet factory and lived in a Greek Revival house (now much altered) at 22 Prospect Street in Thompsonville. Around 1850, he built a new house at 34 Prospect Street. A Gothic cottage, it was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis in 1848. In 2002, residents responded to alterations that removed the house’s decorative features and installed vinyl siding. The siding was soon removed and the building restored with its “gingerbread trim” intact. Henry G. Thompson later built a large estate off Long Island Sound in Milford that he called Morningside.
At 333 Hazard Avenue in Hazardville, Enfield, is the Olmstead-Allen House. It is a Greek Revival house, built in 1848 for George Olmstead (or was it John Olmstead?), who ran the tin works that provided canisters for the Hazard Powder Company.
The Greek Revival house at 1280 Enfield Street in Enfield was built in 1830 for Rev. Francis LeBaron Robbins. Rev. Robbins (b. 1787) was a Congregationalist missionary who became pastor of Enfield’s Congregational Church in 1816. He served as pastor for 34 years, until his death in 1850. The house continued in use as a parsonage until the mid-twentieth century.
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