Built around 1759 for the merchant, Ezekiel Williams, on Broad Street in Wethersfield. Williams was the sheriff of Hartford County from 1767 to 1789 and, during the Revolutionary War, he served as a member of the Committee of the Pay Table and Deputy Commissary General of Prisoners in Connecticut. Ezekiel Williams‘ son, Ezekiel, married a daughter of Oliver Ellsworth.
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Built in 1818 on Main Street in Wethersfield for Capt. Jesse Goodrich, a ship owner and merchant. Each gable-end of the house features an oval window, with a chimney right behind it. The rear addition to this Federal style house dates to the 1870s.
Built in 1767, on Main Street in Wethersfield, for Simeon Belden, who married Martha, daughter of the minister, James Lockwood. It has a gambrel roof, similar to that of the Webb House and other nearby houses in Wethersfield. The Simeon Belden House is one of very few remaining in the Connecticut River Valley to have its original broken scroll, or swan’s neck, doorway pediment. The house, adjacent to Comstock, Ferre & Co., is currently used as offices and also houses the Krown & Kringle Danish pasty shop.
Built in 1854 on South Main Street in Suffield by Dr. Aretus Rising, right next door to another house he built in 1846. This Italianate house has lattice-work columns.
Built in 1803, possibly by James Francis, on Main Street in Wethersfield, for Capt. Daniel Francis. This Federal style house was later updated to the Second Empire style in the 1870s with the addition of a Mansard roof.
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Designed by master builder Captain James Francis, the 1800 Richard Bunce House, at the corner of Main and Garden Streets in Wehersfield, displays some of the same Federal features, like semi-circular windows, as in Francis’ earlier Robert Robbins House. The Bunce House was also a tavern, the entrance being on the west, or Main Street side.
Originally built as a center-chimney house in 1846 for Dr. Aretus Rising on South Main Street in Suffield. In 1854, the house was bought by John Welles Loomis, a successful tobacco entrepreneur, who converted it to a center hallway, two chimney house with Greek Revival features. Loomis later built an Italianate house nearby for his son, George W. Loomis.
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