Dr. Joshua Kendall came to the Humphreysville section of Derby (now the town of Seymour) from Pennsylvania in 1833 and practiced medicine in town for over fifty years. According to The History of the Old town of Derby (1880), by Samuel Orcutt and Ambrose Beardsley, Dr. Kendall,
attended medical lectures at Castleton University, Vt, where he graduated. As a physician and as a citizen he has been a leading and influential man; has been a most efficient member of the school board over thirty years, and has done good work for the advancement of education, temperance and sound morality in the town. He has been ardent and unyielding in his politics and represented Derby in the Legislature in 1849, before Seymour was organized as a new town.
Dr. Kendall’s 1875 house is at the corner of West and Church Streets in Seymour, across Church Street from the Dr. Sheldon C. Johnson House.
This home is an example of a George W. Payne & Son published design from a pattern book. This example matches design #108 B from a “Payne’s Modern Homes” pattern book that was published around the late 1890’s or early 1900’s. Payne practiced out of Carthage, Illinois with his son, but like many “pattern book” or “mail-order” architects, had hundreds of his designs built throughout the USA.
I forgot to mention that the 1875 circa date is a good 20 years earlier than the actual construction.