Built around 1790, the Thomas Howe House, at the corner of Main and Church Streets in Stonington, remained in the Howe family until 1957. In 1887, when it was known as the “Aunt Mary Howe House,” it was rented for $100 a year by the Stonington Free Library Association. The house served as Stonington’s first library until 1899, when construction began on the current library building, located in in Wadawanuck Park.
The Arcade building, at 61-65 Water Street in Stonington, is a nineteenth-century Greek Revival commercial building, constructed in the wake of the fire of April 1837, which destroyed the commercial center of Stonington Borough. The building has contained numerous retail establishments over the years. In 1952, the building was given as a gift by Colonel Frederick Horner to the Stonington Historical Society. The Arcade was then converted into an office and apartments. A number of Stonington locations were used in the movie Mystic Pizza (1988), including the arcade, which was temporarily repainted from white to a buff color for the filming.
At 87 Main Street in Stonington Borough is an 1851 house built for Judge Benjamin Pomeroy. The house was constructed using granite left over from the construction of two local landmarks: the stone John F. Trumbull factory and the Stonington Breakwater. The house may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
At 2 Cannon Square in Stonington is an 1853 house built for Gilbert William Collins. With his brother Daniel and Mark Glines, Collins ran a mill producing doors and window-sash frames. The Collins House is adjacent to Ocean Bank (1851) and faces the monument and cannons of Cannon Square, which commemorate the 1814 Battle of Stonington.
The Fellows-Haley House is on Church Street in Stonington Borough. It was built in 1771 by William Fellows, a ship carpenter. The house had a number of different residents before it became the property of Joshua Haley, Jr. In 1886 he enlarged the house, completely transforming it from its original gambrel-roofed appearance, even adding a mansard roof to the rear.
Gamaliel King (1795-1875) was a New York City architect who designed four houses in Stonington, by the shores of Lambert’s Cove. The house of James Ingersoll Day was lost due to the Hurricane of 1938, but the other three survive. One is the Nathaniel B. Palmer House of 1852 and another is Cove Lawn, built in 1856 for Captain Theodore Dwight Palmer. The third is Linden Hall, also known as the Stanton House, built in 1857 to 1859 for brothers Joseph Warren Stanton and Charles Thompson Stanton.
The Greek Revival home built in 1848 for Peleg Hancox, Jr. is at 168 Water Street in Stonington Borough. His father, Sgt. Peleg Hancox, served in the militia defending Stonington from the British during the War of 1812.
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