Moses Camp House (1840)

Moses Camp (1803-1875), together with his brother Caleb J. Camp, owned a dry goods and grocery store, M. & C. J. Camp, in Winsted. The brothers also owned the Union Chair Company in Robertsville in the Town of Colebrook. The brothers’ other varied business interests included a gas company, an interest in the Sanford Hotel, and the Weed Sewing Machine Company in Hartford. Moses Camp, who also served as Town Clerk from 1846 to 1849, built his Greek Revival-style house at 682 Main Street in Winsted in c. 1840 (its also possible that he remodeled an earlier house on the site, built c. 1825). After he passed away, Camp’s widow resided in the house and rented rooms inside to boarders until her death in 1915. C. Wesley Winslow (1888-1967) bought the house in 1934. Winslow was a lawyer who served for decades as Town Clerk and Clerk of the Superior Court. Today the house is used as offices by the legal firm of Howd, Lavieri & Finch, LLP.

Benjamin Case House (1884)

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The large Victorian-era house at 270 Cherry Brook Road in Canton was built c. 1884-1888 for Benjamin Case, a banker who in 1872 was one of the founders of the Canton Trust Company in Collinsville. The company, which closed its doors in 1916, had a building in Collinsville, built in 1904 and torn down in the 1960s. Many members of the Case family built homes and had farms in the Canton Center Area. Benjamin Case owned Maplewood Farm and was an incorporator of the Canton Creamery. Case was also a founder of Canton’s first telephone company. The house’s chestnut paneled study was used as the switchboard room. The house, with its eighteen rooms, was remodeled by Case’s daughter Ruby into three apartments in 1945.

Nathaniel Phelps, Jr. House (1734)

The house at 192 Hope Valley Road in Hebron is a Colonial Cape built in 1734 by Lt. Nathaniel Phelps, Jr. (1703-1781) His father, Capt. Nathaniel Phelps, Sr. (1677-1746) and uncle, Timothy Phelps (1663-1729), were among the first settlers of Hebron in 1690. The area where the house was erected became known as Hopevale and today’s Hope Valley Road was called the “Highway from Hebron to Hopevale.” Among the house’s later owners were the Rebillard, Porter and Coats families.

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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.

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