Horace Webster House (1837)

The Horace Webster Farmhouse (pdf), at 577 South End Road in Southington, is a Greek Revival house built in 1837. It was constructed on land that Webster had purchased in 1835. He moved an earlier house on the site to the rear to become a barn. Thought to have been one of the oldest houses in Southington, it burned down in 1975. Webster, who was a descendent of seventeenth-century governor John Webster, moved to Fair Haven in New Haven in about 1863. His sons continued to operate the property as a cattle farm until 1917. In the 1920s, the farm property became a golf course, now the Southington Country Club.