A late example of a Colonial-style house in what is known as the Cape Cod style, the Elias Sprague House in Coventry was built in 1821 and is located on South Street, not far from the Nathan Hale Homestead and the Strong=Porter House. Very little is known about the house’s builder, Elias Sprague. The home is now a property of the Coventry Historical Society, although that organization is currently seeking to sell the house in order to maintain its other buildings.
Another example of an “American Foursquare” home, the house at 1643 Boulevard in West Hartford was built around 1900 in what was the town’s first modern subdivision, begun in 1896. The area is now the Boulevard-Raymond Road Historic District. The house’s current owners won a 2007 West Hartford Historic Preservation Award for their construction of a new one-story addition to their Colonial Revival-influenced home which is compatible with the original structure and matches it seamlessly.
The house at 131 Maple Street (originally 125 Maple) in Bristol was built in 1820. Among its residents were Walter O. Perkins, an assistant engineer for the Bristol and Plainville Tramway Company and Albert Nettleton, whose relative Wilford H. Nettleton, lived nearby.
Possibly built by Chauncey Barber, the c.1835 C. Barber House, on Barber Hill Road in East Windsor, is a Greek Revival structure with a side-gable wing. The property has several nineteenth century outbuildings which may have been used for blacksmithing.
The Arthur Stiles House, built in 1916 on Main Street in South Windsor, is an example of the American Foursquare style of house. Popular throughout America from the 1890s to the 1930s, these economical cubes with hipped roofs were a reaction to the more complicated and expensive Victorian house styles. This Foursquare was constructed for Mary Holman, who sold it to her nephew Arthur Stiles for $2,000.
Raynham, a mansion on Townsend Avenue in New Haven, was built in 1804, but was completely transformed in 1856. With decorative elements derived from the writings of A.J. Downing, the house was transformed, and is maintained today, as an excellent example of the Gothic Revival villa. The house was built on a hill overlooking New Haven Harbor by the Townsend family of merchants. Originally called Bayridge, the house was later renamed Raynham, after Raynham Hall, the seat of the Townsend family in Norfolk, England. The house is still owned by members of the Townsend family.
The original Thomas Morris House was built around 1680, off what is now Lighthouse Road in the Morris Cove section of New Haven. It is a rare example of a stone ender house in Connecticut. The ell was added around 1767. On July 5, 1779, during the Revolutionary War, the British raided New Haven and burned the house. The surviving stone and timbers were used by Capt. Amos Morris to rebuild the home the following year. In 1915, William Pardee bought and restored the house, bequeathing it to the New Haven Colony Historical Society in 1918. Known as the Pardee-Morris House, it was open to the public as a house museum for many years, but was forced to close in 2000 due to a lack of funds. Now falling into disrepair, the house, which William Hosley describes as, “the most historic property of the Colonial era in New Haven,” faces an uncertain future.
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