Giles Sisson House (1867)

The property at 121 West Road in Canton was settled in about 1738 by Sgt. Thomas Barber with his widowed mother and three brothers. In 1867, Giles A. Sisson (1832-1900) tore down a house on the property that had been erected by Deacon Hosea Case and replaced it with the current Greek Revival-style farmhouse. In addition to operating the farm, Sisson had a cider mill just south of his house and had a sawmill about a quarter of a mile north on Cherry Brook. From 1874 to 1880 Sisson owned the Canton Center General Store at 180 Cherry Brook Road, during which time he converted that building’s upper floor into a social hall. In about 1920, the farm on West Road was acquired by Otto Freeland, who was born in Sweden. There was once a windmill on that property that was occasionally used to generate electricity for the milling of ax handles. These were then sold to the Collins Company.

House at 233 Millstream Road, Hebron (1845)

At 233 Millstream Road in Hebron is a distinctive Greek Revival-style house that was erected circa 1845. The house features a ground-floor verandah that is inset under part of the second floor and there are matching ells that extend on the north and south sides. The facade has square columns and matching pilasters. A notable feature of the home are three triangular windows that radiate in a sunburst pattern and are surrounded by clapboards applied on a diagonal cap with an elaborate keystone. These are located in the building’s triangular front-facing gable and in the gables of the north and south ells. The house was built on a property that was once the site of a gristmill built in 1735 and operated by Godfrey Tarbox and Son. The property was eventually acquired by the Crouch family and was later owned by the Strong and Rathbone families.

William Bevin House (1757)

One of the oldest houses in East Hampton is the colonial saltbox at 53 Barton Hill Road. It was erected circa 1748-1757 by William Bevin, who died in 1793 at the age of 83. The property was maintained by William’s son Isaac Bevin, Sr. (1746-1791) and grandson Isaac Bevin, Jr. (1773-1870), who married Anna Avery of Glastonbury in 1800. In 1832, their sons, William, Chauncy and Abner, later joined by a fourth brother Philo, started Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company, a bell foundry that is still in business today.

John Batty House (1842)

John Batty House in Mystic

At 18 Pearl Street in Mystic is a Greek Revival style house built in 1842. It was originally the home of John Batty, a spar maker in Mystic’s ship-building industry. As described in the nomination form for the Mystic River Historic District, the house’s “pediment has two right-angle triangular windows with diagonal muntins that form horizontal diamond glazing. The front wall under the pediment is flush vertical boards.”

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James Potter, Jr. House (1858)

Capt. James Potter, Jr. House

The Greek Revival-style residence at 82 Front Street in Noank was the home of James Potter, Jr., a ship captain. In June of 1863, during the Civil War, the Confederate bark C.S.S. Tacony spent two weeks raiding off the coast of New England. One of the fifteen Union ships the Tacony captured and burned was the fishing smack L. A. Macomber, Captain James Potter, Jr. of Noank. The crew were allowed to seek safety in their small boat, which was able to reach Woods Hole. The Tacony‘s career ended after the capture of the schooner Archer. The Confederate crew transferred to the new vessel and burned the Tacony on June 25, 1863.

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House at 16 Charter Oak Place, Hartford (1894)

According to the nomination for the Charter Oak Place National Historic District, the house at 16 Charter Oak Place in Hartford was erected in 1894 for Philemon Robbins, a furniture manufacturer, but Robbins had passed away in 1890. In the 1830s he was a partner with Isaac Wright and Joseph Winship in Isaac Wright & Company, one of Hartford’s leading furniture companies. After Wright’s death in 1838 his partners formed Robbins & Winship, which became Robbins Brothers in 1878.

The house’s first story is brick, with its upper two stories being shingled. There is a Palladian window in the upper story’s triangular gable.

The ninth chimney fire was added to the fire department list yesterday, when the headquarters chemical company answered a telephone call just after noon to the house of Mananger Norman McD. Crawford of the street railway, at No: 16 Charter Oak Place. The chimney burned Itself out and no damage was done.

Hartford Courant, February 14, 1901