At 38 North Elm Street in Wallingford is the Porter Cook House. As recorded in Porter Cook‘s diary (and quoted in the WPA report on the house):
In 1789, Octrober 3, Saturday my new house on Lower Town St. was raised. Samuel Doolittle of Pond Hill hued and fraimed the house, and Timothy Carrington and his son Lemuel clapboarded and shinggled the house. Col. Isaac Cook dighed the sellar wall, Zebilon Potter of this town near Tyler Cook’s East, North of this Town, made the brick. Trobridge and Jordan of New Haven put up my chimney, topt it of in eight days. (Up to Oct. 29, 1790, Bill Brout in and settled $17.00) Captain John Mansfield of Wallingford did the inside work, with them and Abel Mansfield, son to John Mansfield.
A farmer, Cook donated land for Union Academy in Wallingford in 1812.
Working on a SketchUp model, inspired by this house. I will post the link once it is completed.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8e87e9d4b8df6f7348a2b4bb31992050
Great model!
Good blog post. I definitely appreciate this website. Stick with it!
Could this also have been the George Cook hotel in 1843?