Richard Crampton House (1757)

The house at 333 Scott Swamp Road (Route 6) in Farmington displays a date of 1757. According to Farmington’s Historic Resource Inventory, the house was built c. 1841. That was the year Adna Crampton (1773-1847), a farmer, sold the house to his son, Richard Crampton (1811-1885). Adna reserved part of the house for himself and for his wife Naomi after his death. After Richard’s death, the house was inherited by his daughters, Eugenia B. Ayer, who married Ezra C. Ayer (1829-1901) in 1874, and Ella J. Crampton. They sold the house in 1894.

Forestville Station (1881)

The Forestville Passenger Station is a former train station in the village of Forestville in Bristol. It was built in 1881 by the New York and New England Railroad and remained in service until 1960. According to local tradition, the building was prefabricated elsewhere and delivered to Forestville by rail. The station originally had a two-story tower over the east entrance and vestibule, but this was destroyed in a fire in 1900. It was replaced by the current platform shelter that extends out from the east end of the building. When it opened, the station had thirteen passenger rail stops a day, which contributed to the economic prosperity of the village. The Roberge Painting Company owns and restored the historic station.

Creamery Gallery (1893)

The original Canton Creamery, which is not related to the modern Canton Creamery at 465 Albany Turnpike, was a cooperative association, started in 1879, that sold milk and butter from local farms to retail dairies in Hartford and New Haven. Between 1893 and 1896, the operation was moved from its original location on West Road to the building at 150 Cherry Brook Road in Canton. The building‘s heavy concrete foundation was designed to support butter making equipment. The Canton Creamery Association came under new management in 1918 and dissolved in 1947/1982. More recently, the building has been the home of Canton Clay Works and the Creamery Gallery.

Camp-Wilcox House (1874)

Samuel T. Camp, a Middletown Grocer and banker, resided in a house he erected in 1865 at 180 College Street. In 1874, he erected a rental house on the adjacent lot at 11 Pearl Street. Its first tenant, from 1875 to 1890, was Caleb T. Winchester (1847-1920), an 1869 graduate of Wesleyan who became the college’s librarian (1869-1873) and then a professor of English Literature (1873-1920). In 1890 moved into a new house at 284 High Street. In 1906, the house at 11 Pearl Street was acquired by Edgar J. Wilcox and became his residence. Wilcox was president of the Connecticut Business College, which had locations in the Y.M.C.A. building in Middletown and in Hartford. The house remained in his family until 1943. A brick structure, the house is designed in a variety of the Italianate style sometimes referred to as a bracketed cottage. There is a nearly identical house at 154 Church Street that was most likely the work of the same builder.

Moses Camp House (1840)

Moses Camp (1803-1875), together with his brother Caleb J. Camp, owned a dry goods and grocery store, M. & C. J. Camp, in Winsted. The brothers also owned the Union Chair Company in Robertsville in the Town of Colebrook. The brothers’ other varied business interests included a gas company, an interest in the Sanford Hotel, and the Weed Sewing Machine Company in Hartford. Moses Camp, who also served as Town Clerk from 1846 to 1849, built his Greek Revival-style house at 682 Main Street in Winsted in c. 1840 (its also possible that he remodeled an earlier house on the site, built c. 1825). After he passed away, Camp’s widow resided in the house and rented rooms inside to boarders until her death in 1915. C. Wesley Winslow (1888-1967) bought the house in 1934. Winslow was a lawyer who served for decades as Town Clerk and Clerk of the Superior Court. Today the house is used as offices by the legal firm of Howd, Lavieri & Finch, LLP.

Choate Rosemary Hall: Paul Mellon Humanities Center (1938)

One of the many Georgian Revival buildings on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford is the Paul Mellon Humanities Center. It was a gift of philanthropist and Choate graduate Paul Mellon, an art collector who also founded the Yale Center for British Art. Built in 1938, the building’s design by architect Charles F. Fuller has strong similarities to the Governor’s Palace at Colonial Williamsburg. The building was renovated in 1989 through another gift from Mellon.

Benjamin Case House (1884)

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The large Victorian-era house at 270 Cherry Brook Road in Canton was built c. 1884-1888 for Benjamin Case, a banker who in 1872 was one of the founders of the Canton Trust Company in Collinsville. The company, which closed its doors in 1916, had a building in Collinsville, built in 1904 and torn down in the 1960s. Many members of the Case family built homes and had farms in the Canton Center Area. Benjamin Case owned Maplewood Farm and was an incorporator of the Canton Creamery. Case was also a founder of Canton’s first telephone company. The house’s chestnut paneled study was used as the switchboard room. The house, with its eighteen rooms, was remodeled by Case’s daughter Ruby into three apartments in 1945.