Marcellus B. Willcox House (1865)

The house at 133 Main Street in Southington was built in 1865 for Julius N. Savage, who was in the carriage bolt manufacturing business. It was later owned by James F. Pratt, a merchant who organized the Southington National Bank. The house is named for Marcellus B. Willcox, (1844-1918), president of the Southington National Bank and of Peck, Stowe & Wilcox, a hardware manufacturing company based in Southington. The Willcox House is an excellent example of the Stick style, displaying “stickwork” (decorative half-timbering on the exterior walls), decorative brackets and trussing on the gables.