Frankenstein-Hemphill House (1887)

 

 

In 2013, local Pawcatuck teen Connor Beverly wrote a book entitled On the Corner of William and West Broad: A True Example of Aristocracy in Pawcatuck. It details the history of the house at 140 West Broad Street, which was built in 1887 and was in the Eastlake style. Beverly was inspired to write the book by a package of letters and photo negatives he purchased on eBay. They were formerly the property of Sally Frankenstein, a young girl who lived in the house. Later owned by the Hemphill family, who sold it in the early 1970s, the house was restored in the 1980s and was for some years the Sage House Bed and Breakfast.

Update: As noted in the comment below, the house was built based on a mail order design by Michigan architect D. S. Hopkins. It is very similar to the house by Hopkins in the illustration below:  

Hezekiah Hale House (1828)

The house at 326 Jackson Hill Road in Middlefield was built c. 1828, but is associated with Hezekiah Hale, Jr., who died in 1826. His father, Hezekiah Hale, Sr., was a sexton of the Congregational Church and kept a record of the dead from 1761 to 1814 that was included in Thomas Atkins’ History of Middlefield and Long Hill (1883). In 1805, Hezekiah Hale, Jr. (1778-1826) married Nancy Miller, a descendant of Thomas Miller, one of the original proprietors of Middletown.

Andrew Roberts House (1870)

The house at 54 Burnside Avenue in East Hartford was built c. 1870 by Andrew Roberts. A carriage maker, Roberts bought the tract of land in March, 1869 and soon took out a $3,000 mortgage, probably to build the house. The property was foreclosed in 1887 and three years later it was purchased by a farmer named George Bissell (died 1903). The house has been much altered through the construction of a modern store addition, currently home to Custodio Grocery, connected to the front facade.

St. James Episcopal Church, Winsted (1926)

As related in Annals and Family Records of Winchester, Conn. (1873), by John Boyd:

The first stated worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Winsted was begun in 1847, by Rev. H. Frisbie, and some funds were then raised for a church edifice. During the following year arrangements were made for building a church and a location was agreed on. The present Episcopal Church was soon after contracted for and was completed in October, 1848; and on the 27th day of that month the parish of St. James was legally organized [. . . .]

The location of the church, influenced by the liberal subscriptions of individuals in its immediate vicinity, has been deemed ill-judged, and is supposed to have essentially retarded its growth. Endeavors have been made to obtain its removal to a more central point, intermediate between the east and west sections, but as yet without success.

The current St. James Episcopal Church, at 160 Main Street, was built in 1926.

Richard Buell House (1785)

The Richard Buell House is located at 17 Waterside Lane in Clinton. Built in 1785, the house displays features of the Federal style. Material used in the construction of the house actually came from part of a raft that hauled lumber to construct the home at 23 Waterside Lane. The raft was guided down the Connecticut River from Essex and then dismantled and the logs brought to the building site by a team of oxen.