Possibly built earlier, the house of John Baldwin Chittenden, on Boston Street in Guilford, was updated with Federal-style additions, including a tripartite window (similar to that on the Deming-Standish House in Wethersfield) in 1814. In 1831-1832, Chittenden and his family, along with others from Guilford, moved to Illinois and settled near what is now Mendon in Adams County. Chittenden was a deacon in the Congregational Church and in 1833, in his new home in Illinois, the first Congregational Church in the state was organized. In 1834, Chittenden laid out the village of Guilford, now Mendon.
John B. Chittenden House (1814)