Built in 1740, the Alexander (or is it Alex D.?) Ellsworth House, on Palisado Ave in Windsor, is currently for sale.
The Alexander Ellsworth House (1740)
The Jonathan Ellsworth House (1784)
The Jonathan Ellsworth House, on Palisado Ave in Windsor was built in 1784. The hipped roof Georgian house was in the Ellsworth family for several generations and was restored in the 1960s by Albro Case.
Allyn Steele House (1775)
The Allyn Steele House, on North Main Street in West Hartford, was built around 1775. Allyn Steele (1757-1802) married Joanna Caldwell in 1779. The exterior of the Steele House has recently been refurbished. There have been a number of additions to the house.
Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer House (1852)
As a young sea captain in 1820, while searching for new seal rookeries south of Cape Horn, Nathaniel Brown Palmer became the first American to discover Antarctica. Palmer Land, on the Antarctic Peninsula, and the Palmer Archipelago are named in his honor. Later, Palmer helped develop the clipper ship and became a successful ship owner. A biography of “Captain Nat”, titled Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer, An Old-Time Sailor of the Sea, by John R. Spears, was published in 1922. An icebreaking research ship, named the Nathaniel B. Palmer, was launched in 1992. Palmer’s 1852 Italian Villa style mansion, located on Palmer Street in Stonington, overlooks the upper section of Stonington Harbor and is one of four stately homes built in the area of Lambert’s Cove in the 1850s. The house was acquired by the Stonington Historical Society in 1994 and is now open to visitors as a house museum.
847 North Main Street, West Hartford (1777)
The 1777 house at 847 North Main Street in West Hartford is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also on a touring guide of the Historic Sites of West Hartford. No known family name appears to be associated with this home.
Also, seven new buildings have been posted on Historic Buildings of Massachusetts! These are Trinity Church and New Old South Church in Boston; the Sheldon-Hawks House and Wells-Thorn House in Deerfield; the Phillips School in Boston; Harvard Hall in Cambridge; and Connecticut’s own state building at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield!
Graves-Gilman House (1866)
The Graves-Gilman House, on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, is an Italianate Villa built in 1866. Originally intended for John S. Graves, it was sold before it was completed to Tredwell Ketcham of New York, who gave it to his daughter, Mary Van Winker Ketcham. She was the wife of Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale professor and librarian, who became the second president of the University of California in 1872 and in 1875 helped establish the Johns Hopkins University as its first president. Gilman also wrote a number of books, including biographies of James Monroe and James Dwight Dana, whose house was also on Hillhouse Avenue. Yale acquired the house in 1921 and it was converted in 1957 to house the Department of Economics.
Barber-Perry House (1843)
Known locally in Canton as the “Stone House,” the Barber-Perry House, 22 Barbourtown Road, was built in 1843 by two brothers, Volney and Linus Barber. They used stone quarried to the north of the property’s barns. The house was bought by George W. Lamphier in 1866 and by Thomas M. Perry in 1944. Perry was a physicist working on gears for naval ordinance during the war. He worked in a shop on his property and soon started the T.M. Perry Company, eventually building a new facility, across the street from the house, in 1955. The Perry property is still a dairy farm, known as Scott Perry or Perrys Dairy, and the house is owned by the Perry Brothers Partnership.