The Pardee-Morris House (1680)

The original Thomas Morris House was built around 1680, off what is now Lighthouse Road in the Morris Cove section of New Haven. It is a rare example of a stone ender house in Connecticut. The ell was added around 1767. On July 5, 1779, during the Revolutionary War, the British raided New Haven and burned the house. The surviving stone and timbers were used by Capt. Amos Morris to rebuild the home the following year. In 1915, William Pardee bought and restored the house, bequeathing it to the New Haven Colony Historical Society in 1918. Known as the Pardee-Morris House, it was open to the public as a house museum for many years, but was forced to close in 2000 due to a lack of funds. Now falling into disrepair, the house, which William Hosley describes as, “the most historic property of the Colonial era in New Haven,” faces an uncertain future.