Coventry’s Second Congregational Church was organized in 1745, to serve the northern section of the town. The first meeting house was built around 1750 and was replaced by a new one in 1792. The current church building, located on the Boston Turnpike (Route 44), was built in 1847 by builder-architect Edwin Fitch of Storrs.
The Dexter-Adams House, on Centre Street in Mansfield, was built sometime after the land it was constructed on was purchased in 1781 by William and Nathan Dexter. It was purchased in 1803 by Barzillai Swift and was later lived in by his daughter, Lucy, and her husband, Dr. Jabez Adams, one of Mansfield and Windham’s physicians of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He worked for a while in partnership with his brother-in-law, Dr. Earl Swift. Dr. Adams’ daughter, Alice, married the builder Edwin Fitch, who possibly made some of the later alterations to the house. The nineteenth century changes include the addition of a mansard roof and a porch.