The grand Greek Revival-style house at 155 Burrows Hill Road in the Amston section of Hebron is thought to have been built in 1852.
(more…)155 Burrows Hill Road, Hebron (1852)
Leonard Kenney House (1829)
In 1829 Leonard Kenney purchased a parcel of the 1728/29 grant to the heirs of John Stoddard, one of the original proprietors of Litchfield. Soon thereafter he erected the house with the current address of 1083 Bantam Road (Route 202) in Litchfield. Leonard Kenney may be the same Leonard Kenney/Kinney who was postmaster for Bantam Falls. The house remained in the Kenney Family until 1881. It was later the home of Merritt Clarke, who sold dry goods and expanded the rear of the house for his business. Begun in 1923, Merritt Clarke’s Store is still in operation today in the house next door, at 1101 Bantam Road.
(more…)Ephraim Spencer House (1782)
One of the oldest houses in Morris is the Ephraim Spencer House, located at 395 Bantam Lake Road. Built in 1782, it was the Blue Spruce Inn and restaurant in the 1940s.
(more…)David Wickham House (1745)
David Wickham (1714-1797), a shoemaker, purchased land to build the house at 1197 Main Street in Glastonbury in 1742, with additional land purchased in 1745, by which time the house was standing. Across the rear of the house is a one-story shed-roof extension which is part of the original construction.
James Hodge House (1810)
The house at 87 Ferry Lane in Glastonbury was erected c. 1810 by James Hodge, who was descended from one of the town’s earliest settlers. In 1869, it was the home of James Caswell, who had his cabinetmaking shop nearby.
Abiel Cheney, Jr. House (1784)
The house at 46 Indian Hill Road in Portland was built c. 1784–1785 (or later, in 1796) by Abiel Cheney, Jr. It was later owned by George Lewis, Jr., who ran the nearby shipyard and had another house at 628 Main Street.
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George Lewis, Jr. House (1778)
George Lewis, Jr. (1747-1826) was a shipbuilder who erected the house at 628 Main Street in Portland in 1778. His shipyard was nearby, along the Connecticut River. As described in the History of Middlesex County (1884):
For more than a century and a half shipbuilding has been the chief industry of that part of Portland now called Gildersleeve, and it was for a time the most active business in the town. Early in the last century, George Lewis built vessels on the present site of the Gildersleeve yard. The first vessel built in Portland was launched here in October 1741.
Sylvester Gildersleeve purchased the Lewis yard from George Lewis, Jr.’s son, Abel Lewis, in 1838. In 1927, the house the residence of George Lewis’s granddaughter, Elizabeth H. Gildersleeve.
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