Built in 1880, the house at 28 Pearl Street in Mystic was originally the home of Parmenas Avery (1842-1886), a veteran of the Civil War who was a plumber/tinsmith and served as Mystic River postmaster and in the state General Assembly in 1882. In the collections of the Mystic River Historical Society is an invitation to a reception held at the new house the evening of Thursday, December 22, 1880.
The former house at 23 Main Street in Manchester was built sometime in the 1850s. It was recently used as a bank (and still recognizable as a former house), but since the above photograph was taken (2015), it has been completely remodeled as a Dominos Pizza.
Built c. 1891, the house at 87 Main Street in Manchester is a great example of the Queen Anne style.
The First Congregational Church of Bethel was first organized in 1759. Captain Ebenezer Hickok gave the land for the first meeting house (built in 1760) and burial ground. The original building, located at the intersection of Main, Maple, and Chestnut Streets, burned down in 1842, and a new building (the Second Meeting House) was constructed. In 1865, during a severe thunderstorm and gale force wind, the steeple fell and broke through the building’s roof. The church chose to sell the building (it’s now the home of the Bethel Historical Society) to the town and erect a new meeting house, which still stands today, on the site of the original meeting house, at 46 Main Street.
Two houses on Park Place in Mystic (1 Park Place and 5 Park Place) have historic markers indicating that they were the home of John Prentice, a carpenter. I don’t know if it was the same man or, perhaps, a father and son. According to The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, Or Prentiss Family, in New England, Etc., from 1631 to 1883 (1883), by C. J. F. Binney, there was a John Prentice, born “January 16, 1823; house-carpenter, and for last fifteen years cotton-gin builder.” The house pictured above, at 5 Park Place, was erected in 1853. According to the sign on the door, a later owner was Capt. Henry Ashby.
Very similar to the neighboring Greek Revival house at 1 Park Place in Mystic is another house built in the same year, 1860. Located at 3 Park Place, its first resident was William Cann (1831-1906), a ship’s carpenter. He was born in Sidney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and in 1855 married Mary Ann Pendleton (born 1837) in Mystic.
Built in 1860, the house at 1 Park Place in Mystic was originally the home of John Prentice, a carpenter.
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