In 1833, the Litchfield merchant Julius Deming had a Greek Revival style house built for his favorite daughter, Clarissa, on North Street. Clarissa Deming attended Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy and married Charles Perkins, a lawyer who had studied at Tapping Reeve’s Litchfield Law School. Their son, Julius Deming Perkins, inherited the house and doubled its original size. The home remained in the Perkins family into the 1920s.
The Deming-Perkins House (1833)