The house at 89 Maple Street in Ellington was built in 1837. It is referred to as the John H. Brockway House in the Nomination for the Ellington Center Historic District. John Hall Brockway (1801-1870) was a lawyer and Whig politician. He served as member of the State House of Representatives from 1832 to 1848 and as a state senator in 1834. He served in the United States Congress from 1839 to 1843 and was later prosecuting attorney for Tolland County from 1849 to 1867. In 1896, Miss Sarah K. Gilbert left the house in her will to become a parsonage (the Gilbert Memorial Parsonage) of the Ellington Congregational Church. It was the parsonage until 1973 and is now a private residence.
John H. Brockway House (1837)