Jared Shailer built a Greek Revival-style house on Bridge Road, in the Tylerville section of Haddam, in 1838, the year after he married his cousin, Florilla Shailer. Several other Shailer cousins lived nearby. The side hall house has a side wing addition–a common method of adding more space to a front-gabled Greek Revival home.
The Colonial Cape-style house of Simon Smith was built around 1745, just before his 1746 marriage to Eleanor Parker. His sons later sold the property, on Saybrook Road in Haddam, to Noah Clark, whose father Samuel Clark moved into the house, which remained in the Clark family until 1941. The house was restored after a fire in 1982.
Rev. Simon Shailer became minister of Haddam’s Baptist Church in 1822. In 1827, he built a house on Saybrook Road in Shailerville adjacent to a house he had constructed for his son that same year. The houses are very similar in their Federal style design, although the Simon Shailer House has a Victorian-era balustraded porch with a hipped roof. Another son of Simon Shailer, Nathan Emery Shailer, also became a Baptist minister. After Rev. Simon Shailer died in 1864, his widow and daughter lived there and it is now owned by a descendant.
Around 1827 in the Shailerville section of Haddam, where many homes were built by the close-knit Shailer family, Russell Shailer built a Federal style home after his marriage to Huldah B. Arnold. At first, his father, Rev. Simon Shailer, continued to own the land on which the house was built and built a home for himself at the same time next door. When Simon, a Baptist minister, died in 1864, Russell, who was a deacon in the church, received full title to the property. Behind the house was the Shailer and Knowles factory, where stamped and pressed metal products were manufactured from the 1870s to 1914. The houses of both father and son continue to be owned by a descendant of Russell Shailer.
Joseph Arnold, not to be confused with the Joseph Arnold who lived in the Thankful Arnold House (although both men were descendants of the original Haddam proprietor, Joseph Arnold), built his home in the center of Haddam around 1765. Joseph’s son, Simon Arnold (1778-1867), occupied the house after his 1804 marriage to Alice Smith (1778-1834). The home was also occupied, from 1838 until his death in 1869, by Samuel Arnold, the son of Joseph and Thankful Arnold. Samuel Arnold served as a US Congressman from 1857 to 1859. The house, which was significantly altered in the nineteenth century but restored in the twentieth century, remained in the Arnold family until 1967.
UPDATE: This house was destroyed in a fire on June 7, 2023.
Ira Shailer, a descendant of Thomas Shailer, one of the original settlers of Haddam, built his house on Syabrook Road in the Shailerville district of Haddam. It was built in the 1790s, sometime after Shailer married his cousin, Anna Shailer, around 1790. Members of the Baptist Shailer family kept to themselves in their own settlement of Shailerville, often marrying cousins and avoiding outsiders.
The building which today houses the Haddam Veteran’s Museum was originally built in 1930 to be the town’s first firehouse. Located on Candlewood Hill Road, on the south side of Higganum Green, it was built after the Haddam Town Hall burned down in 1929. The sides on the second floor were later raised.