Clinton

The hip-roofed house at 83 East Main Street in Clinton was built c. 1790. It was likely been altered later on in the Colonial Revival style.

The Wright House, located at 101 East Main Street in Clinton, is an excellent example of Federal style architecture, with a fan light in the gable, dentil molding and an elabortate entryway. The house was erected in 1819.

The original owner of the house at 61 Waterside Lane in Clinton, built in 1800, was Captain Nathaniel Farnham. It is said that people living in the house were the first to see the Hartford and New Haven train passing by c. 1852 by climbing to the top of a barn on the property. Caroline A. Kelsey Oakes (born 1851) lived in the house for many years. She was the widow of Captain Lester R. Oakes, who commanded a schooner, the Marian, owned by the Eliot brothers.

The Richard Buell House is located at 17 Waterside Lane in Clinton. Built in 1785, the house displays features of the Federal style. Material used in the construction of the house actually came from part of a raft that hauled lumber to construct the home at 23 Waterside Lane. The raft was guided down the Connecticut River from Essex and then dismantled and the logs brought to the building site by a team of oxen.

The house at 43 Waterside Lane in Clinton was long thought to have been built c. 1790 by Charles K. Rossiter, who actually lived in it later on. It was actually built c. 1805 by ship master Daniel Vail on land purchased by his son, Silas Vail, in 1804.