Justin Smith House (1710)

At 54 Lyme Street in Old Lyme is a three-quarter cape with a gambrel roof, called the Justin Smith House, which was built in 1710. In recent years, the house was saved from demolition and completely restored by its current owners, Brad and Gerri Sweet, who discovered that some of the wood rafters had come from an even earlier building. The house had many owners over the years. Samuel Mather sold it to Nathan Tinker in 1784, who himself sold it in 1790. It was then own successively by three brothers, Joseph, Charles and Simon Smith. After World War One, the house was the residence of Matilda Brown, an artist who was part of the Old Lyme art colony.