Adam Stanton House (1789)

Adam Stanton moved from Rhode Island to Clinton during the Revolutionary War and operated a general store and salt distillery on his property. This land had earlier been the site of Reverend Abraham Pierson‘s house, built in 1694. It was there, from 1701 to 1707, that Rev. Pierson taught the first classes of the Collegiate School, which was later moved to Saybrook and then to New Haven, where it eventually became Yale University. Adam Stanton took down the Pierson House when he built his own house on the site in 1789-1791, using parts of the earlier structure in the construction of the new one. Today, the Stanton House is a museum of American antiques with almost all of the furnishings being original to the house.