Historic Buildings of Connecticut - Exploring the Nutmeg State One Building at a Time

Thomas Chapman House (1831)

Built in 1831, the Thomas Chapman House is a late example of a Federal-style residence at 114 Main Street in Ellington. The house has a long rear ell.

The John Camp House is thought to be the oldest surviving building in Newington. Located at 301-303 West Hill Road, it was built around 1710 by either John Camp (1645-1711), who acquired the property in 1697, or his son, Captain John Camp (1675-1747), who led Newington’s first company of militia, when it was organized in 1726. At one time the house had a one-story front porch. One of the two front entrance doors was added in the nineteenth century.

Hotchkiss Block (1880)

The Hotchkiss Block in Ansonia is a commercial building at 54-64 Main Street. It was part of a row of buildings erected by 1881 that were owned by W & L Hotchkiss Company, builders, which dissolved in 1885.

James Hurlbut House (1835)

A fairly late example of a Federal style residence, the house at 8 Keighley Pond Road in Middle Haddam was built in 1835 by James Hurlbut. He sold it two years later because he was already building a newer and larger house, just to the south at 2 Keighley Pond Road.

Henry Dickinson House (1847)

The Greek Revival house at 48 Four Rod Road in Berlin was built c. 1847 by Henry Dickinson, a blacksmith. The side ell is a later addition.

St. Mary’s Church, Simsbury (1936)

The first Catholic Mass celebrated in the Hopmeadow Street area of Simsbury was on October 5, 1902. Simsbury Catholics had previously been traveling to St. Bernard’s Church in Tariffville. The Church of the Immaculate Conception was soon built on the north side of Plank Hill Road and dedicated on May 29, 1904. The parish, organized in 1921, eventually outgrew this wood frame structure and a new brick church. Located at 940 Hopmeadow Street, it was dedicated to St. Mary on February 23, 1936.

Hall Block, Southport (1895)

On December 31, 1894, a fire in Southport destroyed the commercial/tenement building at the corner of Main Street and Harbor Road in Southport. Known as the Hall Block (possibly built in 1874), it was soon rebuilt in the Italianate style, with shops on the first floor and apartments above. The building, located at 252 Main Street with a flatiron form, was later altered converted in the Colonial Revival style into condominiums.