The Daniel Mallett House, built c. 1852, is located at 315 Tashua Road in Trumbull. It is one of many houses built in the Tashua area of Trumbull by members of the Mallett family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In 1860, Judson Bushnell (1836-1906) of Ivoryton married Harriet Griswold (1839-1925). In 1872, he erected the house at 32 Main Street in Ivoryton, on land he had purchased from his father-in-law, Edwin Griswold, the partner of Samuel M. Comstock in the ivory comb-making business of Comstock & Griswold. The house was then occupied by Judson and Harriet’s son, Clarence (died 1940), who had previously lived in the former home of his grandfather, Edwin Griswold, across the street. Clarence Bushnell sold automobiles as a partner in the dealership of Behrens and Bushnell.
The land at 434 Cherry Brook Road in Canton was first settled by Hezekiah Adams in 1749. It is not known exactly when the house was constructed and there have been a number of alterations since it was built.
Medad Holcomb (died 1858) was a farmer in North Guilford who built the house at 2814 Long Hill Road in 1805. (His son, Medad Holcomb, Jr., would later build the house at 95 Fair Street in Guilford in 1848). In 1809, Rev. William F. Vaill acquired the house while he was pastor of the North Guilford Congregational Church. Later alterations to the house include the switch to smaller chimneys and shingle siding. The Holcomb farm, later owned by John Dudley, was operated as a dairy farm for many years and has many surviving barns and outbuildings.
The William Towers House is a shingled, gambrel-roofed Colonial Revival-style house at 30 Lester Avenue in Pawcatuck. It was built in 1928.
The Cape Cod-type house at 9 Gravel Street in Mystic was built in 1818 by Capt. George Wolfe for his bride. The house has an addition, formerly a school house, on the west side.
At 123 Main Street in the Rockfall district of Middlefield is a Greek Revival house built between 1845 and 1847. It is unusual in that the entrance is on the west side of the house instead of on the front facade that faces the street. Originally, there was also a door on the east side. The multiple entrances provided access to what was built as a boarding house for workers employed at the mills along the Coginchaug River. Now a two-family house, the building was erected by William F. Boardman, who also built another boarding house just to the west.
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