The Thomas Wells House was built as a saltbox house in 1774 on Wolcott Hill Road in Wethersfield. When viewed from the front, the house’s chimney is not visible. Capt. Thomas Wells was on the building committee for Wethersfield’s First Congregational Church.
The Chaplin-Apthorp House originally stood on Whitney Avenue, where it was built for James Chaplin by James Hillhouse in 1806. In the 1820s, Hillhouse rented the home to Samuel F. B. Morse. After Morse left, the house was moved in 1827 by James A. Hillhouse to Hillhouse Avenue and a schoolroom was attached for the widowed Mrs. Apthorp, who wanted to open a girls’ school. Apthorp later moved to another house on Hillhouse Avenue in 1838 and the Chaplin-Apthorp House (without its schoolroom) was moved to its current location on Trumbull Street. The house has wings which were added later. It is currently for sale.
Dr. John Hull built a house around 1764 in Cheshire next to the house, built around the same time, of his brother, Dr. Amos Hull. Both brothers married sisters from the Hitchcock family. The two houses are very similar in design and both were recently threatened with demolition until the developers who had acquired both properties agreed to restore the Colonial era homes. The John Hull House is also known as the Judge Hincks House
The Deming Sexon House is an octagon house on Middletown Avenue in East Hampton. The house appears to have two floors in the picture above, but on the other side the house’s basement is exposed and has windows, revealing that it actually has three floors. Deming Sexton was an East Hampton bell manufacturer.
The Enos S. Kimberly House is a very solid and imposing Queen Anne house, built in 1884 on Orange Street in New Haven. Enos Kimberly was, according to an 1886 bill, a dealer in wholesale and retail coal and wood. His wife, Sarah Chatfield Kimberly, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The architect of the home was Rufus G. Russell, a former assistant of Henry Austin.
Charles Uriah Hayden was the grandson of Ebeneezer Hayden, the leading shipbuilder of his time in Essex. Ebeneezer had been predeceased by his children, so when he died in 1818, he left his property to his grandchildren. They proceeded to construct several impressive homes along West Street and Champlin Square in Essex. Charles Uriah Hayden’s Federal style home was built in 1819, on West Street across from Essex town hall. Within fifteen years, he had lost his money and had to sell the house to Joseph Post, a sea captain and ship builder. Post was likely the owner who added a cupola to the house. After six years, Capt. Post sold the house to his brother in 1841. The house had other owners over the years, including the Brooklyn, New York businessman George Ives Stevens. The house was seriously damaged by a fire in 1994, but it has since been restored.
Located in Newington Junction, the Stoddard-Sherwood House was built for John Rozwell Stoddard. He was superintendent for the Russell & Irwin Manufacturing Company and then manager for the Capewell Horseshoe Nail Company. Stoddard and his wife, Lila Marguerite Steele, had seven children and one of them, Lila Steele Stoddard Sherwood, who had married Charles Sherwood, lived in the house after her father’s death in 1936.
