The Samuel Seymour House (1784)

The house at 74 South Street in Litchfield is described by Alice T. Bulkeley in Historic Litchfield, 1721-1907 (1907) as follows:

The Seymour house, now St. Michael’s rectory, was built in 1784 by Samuel Seymour, the brother of Major Moses Seymour, who lived there until his death in the early nineteenth century. The south wing was added about twenty or twenty-five years ago. The southeast room on the second floor was used by Calhoun when a law student. Samuel Seymour was a prominent resident of the town and a captain in the militia. He was famous for sharpening razors, and every morning the other members of the Seymour family used to come to his house where they kept their razors, and all shave at the same time. The house was bought in 1860 by Clarissa Seymour, widow of Rev. Truman Marsh, who gave it to St. Michael’s Church for a rectory.