The late Greek Revival house at 180 Prospect Street in Waterbury was built around 1850 for Isaac B. Hinman. It was later home to Dana L. Hungerford of Benedict & Burnham and then, after 1918, by Clarence P. Cook, a 1901 graduate of Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School. He was employed by the Scovill Manufacturing Company and also served as president of the Waterbury Y.M.C.A.
The Camp-Meigs House, at 40 Main Street in Durham, is thought to have been built around 1760. It was probably built by Samuel Camp, who had gotten married in 1758 and then inherited the property from his father, John Camp, in 1767. It was later passed to Samuel’s son, Ozias, and then to Ozias’s daughter Mary and her husband, Phineas Meigs. The house was later owned by the Seward family from 1890-1964 and in 1980 was extensively rebuilt to become Camp’s Tavern restaurant. Today, the house is used as offices.
Built around 1875, the Italianate house at 3341-43 Whitney Avenue in Hamden was built for Joseph H.K. Miller. He was employed by the Mount Carmel axle works factory of Frederick Ives, part of the New Haven area’s carriage building industry. By 1880, Joseph’s brother, Willis E. Miller, became a partner in the company, which was thereafter known as Ives and Miller. The factory was in operation until 1907.
Laurens Perseus Hickok served as minister at Litchfield’s First Congregational Church from 1829 to 1836. His early published addresses include The Sources of Military Delusion and the Practicability of their Removal (1833) and A Sermon Preached at Litchfield, Conn., at the Funeral of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, March 12, 1835. Hickok was later a professor and wrote such works as Rational Psychology (1849), A System of Moral Science (1853), Empirical Psychology (1854), Rational Cosmology (1858), Creator and Creation (1872), Humanity Immortal (1872), and The Logic of Reason (1875). Built in 1831, his Greek Revival house is located at 134 North Street in Litchfield.
The Greek Revival house at 64 West Main Street in Chester was built around 1830. Associated with Julius Smith, a dealer in dry goods and groceries, by 1859 the house was home to L. Norton. Stuart Joslyn bought and restored the house in the 1930s, one of several old houses he and his first wife restored on West Main Street.
Around 1745, Edward Curtis began to build a house at what is now the southeast corner of Elm and Broad Streets in Stratford. It was completed by his nephew, Henry Curtis and remained in the Curtis family until 1981. The house has a tilt, believed to have been caused by two earthquakes, in 1747 and 1813.
Dating to around 1790, the Griswold-Moseley House, at 1936 Main Street in Glastonbury, was built by Thomas White Griswold, a farmer. In 1798, the Griswold family sold the house to Capt. Joseph Moseley and moved to upstate New York. The house remained in the Moseley family into the twentieth century.
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