Daniel W. Green House (1891)

At 80 Central Avenue in East Hartford is a Queen Anne-style house. Its original facade now lies behind the later additions of a two-story entry porch and an octagonal bay and porch. The house was erected in 1891 on a property that R.W. Roberts, who owned several lots on Central Avenue, had sold to Daniel W. Green in 1889. Green, born in 1857 and originally from Sumner, Oxford County, Maine, was a contractor and builder. According to Vol. I of the Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut (1901):

Daniel W. Green was educated in the common schools of his native district, also at the South Paris (Maine) High School, and after leaving school, at the age of sixteen years, on account of weakened eyes brought about by typhoid fever, he worked in various mills until about 1882, when he went to Crescent City, Putnam Co., Fla. There he learned the carpenter’s trade, worked there five years, and then returned to Connecticut, worked one year for Cheney Brothers, in Manchester, next moved to East Hartford worked for W. J. Driggs, contractor and builder, for nine years, and in 1896 began contracting and building on his own account, in which he has met with success—a success due to his pains-taking endeavor to please his patrons. On Sept. 19, 1883, Mr. Green married Miss Emma F. Wetherell, a native of South Manchester, born April 27, 1861 [. . . .]

To the marriage of Daniel W. Green and wife have been born two children: Ernest Carlton, in Crescent City, Fla., Sept. 8, 1886, and Marian Lucille, Oct. 28, 1888, in South Manchester. Mr. Green and his family attend the Congregational Church, of which Mrs. Green has long been a conscientious member. In politics Mr. Green is inclined to Democracy, but does not always cast his vote for that party; fraternally he is a member of Wadsworth Council, No. 39, O.U.A.M., of Manchester. Through his industry, skill, and industrious habits, Mr. Green has gained a comfortable home, which he built in 1891, on a lot purchased from Watson Roberts. He is a genial, whole-souled gentleman, and he and his wife, with their two bright children, form a happy family, greatly respected by all who know them.