Asa E. Perkins House (1835)

The history of the house at 584 Main Street in New Hartford is related in Sketches Of The People And Places Of New Hartford In The Past And Present (1883), by Henry R. Jones, where it is described as

a pretty two-story house, with a veranda on the south side and along the front of the ell part, the whole painted a pinkish tint. The house was built by Asa E. Perkins, a cabinet maker, who was well known in this town fifty years ago. He was a brother of Mrs Caleb C. Goodwin and Mrs Grove S. Marsh. Mr Perkins purchased the land of Richard B. Cowles in 1835, and probably built the house immediately after. He lived there a number of years, after which he removed to the hotel in this village, of which he was the proprietor a year or two, when he removed with his family to Michigan, where he died in 1882.

After Mr Perkins, the house was occupied by “Deacon” Wentworth for several years. L. Frank Fuller was its owner and occupant for some years; from his hands it became the property of Mr and Mrs Reed Anderson, an aged couple who resided there from the time of purchase in 1863 until their death. Mr Anderson died April 20, 1878, at the age of eighty-six, Mrs Anderson Oct. 14, 1880, aged eighty-three. Mr and Mrs Anderson came to this town from East Haddam. After the death of Mrs Anderson, the place was purchased by her sister, Mrs J. C. Smith, who immediately remodeled and enlarged it. The place was then used by the Cong’l society as a parsonage, and was occupied for several years by the pastor of that church, Rev Frederic H. Adams, the father of Dr. Walter B. Adams who married Anna L. Carter. Afterwards it was occupied by Wm. McAlpine, a tailor in town, and his family. In 1892 this place was purchased by Jacob Widmer, who was for many years a master machinist for the Greenwoods Company. Mr Widmer’s wife is the daughter of Mrs Anson J. Hawley of Town Hill. Mr and Mrs Widmer had three children, Frederick, who died in the South in 1894; Howard J. and Mary, twins, the latter the wife of Frank B. Munn, Esq., a lawyer practising in Winsted and New Hartford; Howard is a machinist, now working in Brooklyn, L. I. Mr Widmer carries on a jewelry and variety store in town.

Richard Crampton House (1757)

The house at 333 Scott Swamp Road (Route 6) in Farmington displays a date of 1757. According to Farmington’s Historic Resource Inventory, the house was built c. 1841. That was the year Adna Crampton (1773-1847), a farmer, sold the house to his son, Richard Crampton (1811-1885). Adna reserved part of the house for himself and for his wife Naomi after his death. After Richard’s death, the house was inherited by his daughters, Eugenia B. Ayer, who married Ezra C. Ayer (1829-1901) in 1874, and Ella J. Crampton. They sold the house in 1894.

Forestville Station (1881)

The Forestville Passenger Station is a former train station in the village of Forestville in Bristol. It was built in 1881 by the New York and New England Railroad and remained in service until 1960. According to local tradition, the building was prefabricated elsewhere and delivered to Forestville by rail. The station originally had a two-story tower over the east entrance and vestibule, but this was destroyed in a fire in 1900. It was replaced by the current platform shelter that extends out from the east end of the building. When it opened, the station had thirteen passenger rail stops a day, which contributed to the economic prosperity of the village. The Roberge Painting Company owns and restored the historic station.

Creamery Gallery (1893)

The original Canton Creamery, which is not related to the modern Canton Creamery at 465 Albany Turnpike, was a cooperative association, started in 1879, that sold milk and butter from local farms to retail dairies in Hartford and New Haven. Between 1893 and 1896, the operation was moved from its original location on West Road to the building at 150 Cherry Brook Road in Canton. The building‘s heavy concrete foundation was designed to support butter making equipment. The Canton Creamery Association came under new management in 1918 and dissolved in 1947/1982. More recently, the building has been the home of Canton Clay Works and the Creamery Gallery.

Camp-Wilcox House (1874)

Samuel T. Camp, a Middletown Grocer and banker, resided in a house he erected in 1865 at 180 College Street. In 1874, he erected a rental house on the adjacent lot at 11 Pearl Street. Its first tenant, from 1875 to 1890, was Caleb T. Winchester (1847-1920), an 1869 graduate of Wesleyan who became the college’s librarian (1869-1873) and then a professor of English Literature (1873-1920). In 1890 moved into a new house at 284 High Street. In 1906, the house at 11 Pearl Street was acquired by Edgar J. Wilcox and became his residence. Wilcox was president of the Connecticut Business College, which had locations in the Y.M.C.A. building in Middletown and in Hartford. The house remained in his family until 1943. A brick structure, the house is designed in a variety of the Italianate style sometimes referred to as a bracketed cottage. There is a nearly identical house at 154 Church Street that was most likely the work of the same builder.

Moses Camp House (1840)

Moses Camp (1803-1875), together with his brother Caleb J. Camp, owned a dry goods and grocery store, M. & C. J. Camp, in Winsted. The brothers also owned the Union Chair Company in Robertsville in the Town of Colebrook. The brothers’ other varied business interests included a gas company, an interest in the Sanford Hotel, and the Weed Sewing Machine Company in Hartford. Moses Camp, who also served as Town Clerk from 1846 to 1849, built his Greek Revival-style house at 682 Main Street in Winsted in c. 1840 (its also possible that he remodeled an earlier house on the site, built c. 1825). After he passed away, Camp’s widow resided in the house and rented rooms inside to boarders until her death in 1915. C. Wesley Winslow (1888-1967) bought the house in 1934. Winslow was a lawyer who served for decades as Town Clerk and Clerk of the Superior Court. Today the house is used as offices by the legal firm of Howd, Lavieri & Finch, LLP.

Choate Rosemary Hall: Paul Mellon Humanities Center (1938)

One of the many Georgian Revival buildings on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford is the Paul Mellon Humanities Center. It was a gift of philanthropist and Choate graduate Paul Mellon, an art collector who also founded the Yale Center for British Art. Built in 1938, the building’s design by architect Charles F. Fuller has strong similarities to the Governor’s Palace at Colonial Williamsburg. The building was renovated in 1989 through another gift from Mellon.