The two-family house at 187-189 Main Street in Unionville (in Farmington) was built around 1885 as a rental house by Minerva Upson Frisbie, wife of Samuel Frisbie, a treasurer of the Upson Nut Company (he also had a number of patents for machines). The house is trimmed with decorative features in the Stick style, such as sunbursts.
Built in 1803 (or possibly much earlier), the tinsmith shop of Asa Andrews is located next to a small green, off Main Street in Farmington. The tinsmith Andrews, whose house was nearby, specialized in japanned tinware (japanning is a type of varnishing or painting on tin and other materials). He was also “the maker of those chandeliers, compounds of wood and tin, that long hung from the meeting-house ceiling.” The building is now a private residence.
The Italianate house of George Dunham, on Lovely Street in Unionville, was built in 1868. The front portico with columns was added later. In 1860, together with A.S Upson, Dunham had acquired a company which produced nuts and bolts. Originally called Upson and Dunham, the company incorporated in 1865 as the Union (later the Upson) Nut Company. Dunham invented the Dunham forged nut machine and would go on to invent a number of others.
The Jude Hamilton House was constructed in 1802, on Main Street in Farmington. It is a brick, Federal style house and has a newer west wing added in the 1960s.
Originally a private residence, built around 1800, the dorm of Miss Porter’s School called “Humphrey” is a Federal Style building which is connected to the “Colony” dorm by a “Senior Room” built in 1970.
Judah Woodruff, a descendant of Matthew Woodruff, one of the original proprietors of Farmington, fought in the French and Indian War and was a captain in the Revolutionary War. He was also a builder who constructed the First Church and 21 houses in Farmington, including his own. The Judah Woodruff House, on Mountain Spring Road, was built in 1760 and features a Connecticut River Valley doorway.
Adjacent to Yale’s Lewis-Walpole Library, on Main Street in Farmington, is the Timothy Root House. It was constructed for Root, an army captain, in 1784 by the builder Judah Woodruff, who built 21 homes in the town, as well as First Church. Woodruff is buried in Farmington’s Memento Mori Cemetery. The house was renovated in 2001 to house scholars who are working with the library’s collections.