The Mather-Douglas House was built around 1811-1813, on South Main Street, off South Green in Middletown. It is a Federal style house with later Italianate additions. Built by a Mather, a later owner of the house was Benjamin Douglas, who was a factory-owner and politician. He was a founder of the W. & B. Douglas foundry company (Wesleyan’s Douglas Cannon was named after him) and he was a member of the state general assembly and mayor of Middletown from 1849 to 1855. He was an abolitionist and there is “strong circumstantial evidence” that his house was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
The Mather-Douglas House (1811)