Built in 1685 by John Grave, Sr. for his son, John Grave, Jr. on the Boston Post Road in Madison, down the road from the Allis-Bushnell House, which was built 100 years later. The Deacon John Grave House originally consisted of just two rooms, until around 1710, when it was expanded into a center-chimney house to accommodate Grave’s growing family. Sometime during the Revolutionary War, the house was expanded again with the addition of a shed in the rear, making it into a saltbox. Seven generations of the same family lived in the house in the following centuries. In 1983, when it was in danger of destruction, the Deacon John Grave Foundation was created to save and restore the home, and it is currently maintained by the Foundation as a house museum.
hi Historic Buildings.
The Deacon John Grave House and Foundation is trying to clean up our audience facing material and your link to our house is based on an old version of our website and is no longer a page.
Any chance you can change the link to http://www.deaconjohngrave.org?
Would you also like more accurate text and photos?
Just let us know.
Thanks
Bill,
I have updated the links in the post! If you want to share more accurate information about the house, you can reach me at daniel at historicbuildingsct dot com.
Dan
Thanks Dan.
I’ll get back to you when I can with any update info.