The J.S. Ely House, on Broadway in Norwich, was built around 1850 for the owner of Ely & Company, a dry goods store. The house is in the Gothic Revival style and has a prominent gable featuring a quatrefoil window.
The J.S. Ely House (1850)
Burnham-Dewitt House (1789)
Built on Broadway in Norwich at the same time (1789) as the neighboring Perkins House, the Burnham-Dewitt house has a very similar appearance. It was built for the nephew of Hezekiah Perkins, Zebulon Perkins Burnham, who was also a sea captain. Burnham was lost at sea in 1810 and the house was later owned by the sea captain Jacob Dewitt. In 1812, Lydia Huntley (later Mrs. Sigourney) and Nancy Maria Hyde used the house as a girl’s school.
Norwich City Hall (1873)
In 1869, the General Assembly of Connecticut granted the Town of Norwich and the County of New London the right to jointly erect a multipurpose building for town, city and county purposes, which originally included a county Superior Court and a jail in the basement. The Second Empire-style City Hall of Norwich, at the intersection of Union Street and Broadway, was built between 1870 and 1873. The clock tower was added in 1909 and a European plaza in 1999. There is also HABS documentation for this building from 1984.
Hezekiah Perkins House (1789)
The Federal-style house built for the sea captain Hezekiah Perkins is located on Broadway in Norwich. It is across from Little Plain Green, a triangular-shaped park which was donated to the town by Perkins and his neighbor, Deacon Jabez Huntington. Perkins was cashier at the Norwich Bank and, with his nephews, was also involved in the founding of the Chelsea Grammar School in 1806, which operated for about forty years.