At 50 Main Street in Newtown is an 1869 mansard-roofed Second Empire-style house built in 1869 for Henry Beers Glover. He was a successful businessman and, in 1855, he became one of the founders of the Newtown Savings Bank, serving as the bank’s treasurer until his death in 1870, just after the completion of his house. Glover was on the building committee for Trinity Episcopal Church in Newtown and his house may have been designed by Silas N. Beers, a surveyor and mapmaker who was the architect of Trinity Church. Glover’s daughter, Mary B. Glover, married William J. Beecher, an attorney, who later had his office in the Glover House, where they lived. Their daughter, Florence Beecher, married Stephen E. Budd around 1918. After her husband’s death, she continued to live in the Glover House, which became known as the Budd House, until she died in 1977.
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