Dating to c. 1903, the Canfield Building is a historic commercial block at 93-97 Main Street in the village of Canaan. Originally built to house the Canfield Lime Company. It features a pressed-metal exterior and cast-iron storefronts.
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One of the many buildings on the grounds of Mystic Seaport is the Edmondson House, which now serves as the Children’s Museum. The house was built in the 1850s-1860 as a residence for John Edmondson (1803-1875), a textile worker and shipyard foreman. He married Catherine Greenman (1803-1882), a sister of the three Greenman brothers whose former shipyard is now the site of Mystic Seaport. After the Seaport acquired the house in 1942, the building became the Pugsley Clock Shop, an exhibition space for clocks, watches and navigational instruments. It is now the Children’s Museum, which had previously been located in a former work shop and tool shed dating to 1841.
Yesterday we featured the c. 1845 house of Capt. Evelyn White in Portland. Next door, at 610 Main Street, is a house he built c. 1859 for his daughter, Arabella (1835-1877), who married Joseph O. Willcox (1833-1922). Joseph served as Justice of the Peace in 1878-1879. The house was owned by a member of the Gildersleeve family in 1927.
The Greek Revival house at 608 Main Street in Portland was built c. 1845. It was the home of Evelyn White, a ship captain (he is listed as captain and, with O. G. Terry, co-owner of the sloop Phoenix, built in 1839 at the Portland shipyard of S. Gildersleeve & Sons). He is probably the same Evelyn White who later served a term in the state legislature in 1880 and twelve terms as selectman. By the late 1920s the house was occupied by members of the Gildersleeve family.
The house at 1047 Bantam Road in Litchfield was built circa 1873 to 1880 in the Greek Revival style. Several houses in the vicinity were owned by members of the Kilbourne family in the mid-nineteenth century and this house may have replaced one of those that had burned down. Today it houses the offices of a law firm.
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The oldest section of the house at 490 Cherry Brook Road in Canton may date back to 1740s, when the land was owned by Thomas Phelps, the earliest known settler on the site, whose brother Benjamin may also have lived with him. Thomas’ grandson was Anson G. Phelps, the New York businessman who founded the town of Ansonia. For many years, going back at least to the 1950s, the property was home to Rusthall Kennels, and is now Cherry Brook Kennels.
The house at 22 Church Street in Hebron was built in 1806 for John Samuel Peters (1772-1858). A nephew of Rev. Samuel Peters, John S. Peters served as governor of Connecticut from 1831 to 1833.
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