The Congregational Church in Plymouth Hollow (which would become the Town of Thomaston in 1875) was founded in 1837 and the congregation’s meeting house was built the following year. The First Congregational Church of Thomaston is a Greek Revival edifice located at 135 Main Street.
At 115 North Main Street in Southington is a house built in 1798. It has later alterations in the Greek Revival style (the cornices and gable pediment) and a later Italianate-style front porch.
At 43 North Elm Street in Wallingford is a house built in 1789 and known as the John Hall House. One website notes that Jeremiah Hall, a descendent of the early Wallingford settler John Hall, once farmed land behind the house. The house is now owned by Choate Rosemary Hall and is used as a faculty residence.
Abraham Coan was the architect-builder of the house at 1 State Street in Guilford, constructed in 1803 for Leonard Chamberlain and his wife, Mary Ann Collins, the daughter of Friend Collins, whose house is next door. Around 1817, Chamberlain sold the house to Samuel Eliot, a prominent merchant.
Among the numerous brick houses built in Windsor in the early nineteenth century is the Quartus Bedortha House at 54 Poquonock Avenue. It was built by Quartus Bedortha in 1835. He was born in Agawam, Mass. on February 21 1808, married Ruth Loomis on February 28, 1832 (they had two children) and died on August 4, 1879.
The building which today serves as the Town Hall of Wallingford, was built in 1916 as the Lyman Hall High School. The school was named for Lyman Hall, a native of Wallingford who signed the Declaration of Independence. It later was the Robert Early Junior High School, before becoming the Town Hall in 1988. It was designed by John T. Simpson.
At 210 Broadway in Norwich is the Reverend Frank Norton House, an elaborate Gothic Revival residence. Little is known about Rev. Norton. Could he be the Frank Norton listed as born in Norwich in 1844? There are also some surviving medical bills for the reverend and his wife, covering the years 1877 to 1881. He was not connected to any church in Norwich, so it is assumed he was retired when he lived in the house, which was built in 1876. The house is next to the William M. Williams House, which was built two years later.
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