<p>The Chelsea Parade Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area north of downtown Norwich. Centered around the Chelsea Parade, a triangular public park, the area has long been a preferred residential area for the city&#39;s upper classes, and includes a catalog of architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries. It includes 565 contributing buildings, two other contributing sites, and six contributing objects over an area of 205 acre. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Norwichs first area of settlement was Norwichtown near the Yantic River, but it quickly developed a commercial port called Chelsea Landing further south, where the Yantic and Shetucket Rivers meet to form the Thames. Initially common pastureland, the Chelsea Parade area was subdivided in 1726, and in 1740 roads were built through the area, joining Norwichtown and the port. By the late 18th century, Norwich was the largest city in Connecticut. The Chelsea Parade area was from the late 18th century a desirable residential area, where the citys wealthy built their houses. The Chelsea Parade was set aside as a public common in 1797, and gradually became more like a public park, around which residential and civic buildings were built. It continued to be a fashionable address through the 19th century, as the city&#39;s business shifted from maritime commerce to textiles and other manufacturing, powered by the nearby rivers. One of the grandest estates near the Parade was established by John Fox Slater, the grandson of early textile pioneer Samuel Slater; only the carriage house survives. The Slaters supported the founding of Norwich Free Academy, located in the district, as well as founding the Slater Memorial Museum.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is roughly in the shape of a teardrop, with Washington Street and Broadway, the roads flanking Chelsea Parade, as its principal thoroughfares. More densely-built residential areas on either side are included in the district. It includes several properties previously listed on the National Register, including the Nathaniel Backus House, the Broad Street School, and the Converse House and Barn. Other notable buildings include the Park Congregational Church (UCC), and St. Patrick Cathedral.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House is a two-story Greek Revival clapboarded house with a gable roof in Norwich, Connecticut. The house was built around 1750 by Nathaniel Backus and served as his home, it was later moved to its current location in 1952. The house originally began as a Colonial, but was greatly modified to Greek Revival around 1825, reconfiguring the central door to the left of the facade and adding two chimneys. The house is a historic house museum operated by the Faith Trumbull Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House was submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical value in local history and as an example of Greek Revival domestic architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1970 and was also included in the Chelsea Parade Historic District in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Nathaniel Backus</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House&#39;s namesake is its builder Nathaniel Backus, a descendant of William Backus and William Backus, Jr., two of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut. Nathaniel Backus was born on April 5, 1704, and he married Hannah Baldwin in 1726. Together they would have seven children. Nathaniel Backus was also recorded to be one of six men in Norwich to own their own carriages before the American Revolutionary War. Nathaniel Backus died in 1773.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus Houses construction date is unknown, but it is believed to have been around 1750. The History of Norwich, Connecticut places it around 1734 and makes mention of a highway being added in 1750 specifically by Nathaniel Backus house. In the 1970 National Historic Register of Places nomination, the Daughters of the American Revolution indicated it dates from 1750.</p><br>
<p>The house originally stood on Broadway Street in the center of Norwich, Connecticut. It was originally Colonial at its time of construction, but has been modified to Greek Revival style. The house is a white two-story clapboarded structure with its gable end facing the street. The three-bay facade faces south and the front entrance is located on the left bay. The eaves cornice is decorated with mutules that span the length of the gable ends and combines with the roof cornice to make a pediment that encloses an elliptical window in the center. The window is of the "rising sun pattern" with glass panes radiating out through two rings. The entrance on the left of the facade has a paneled door, stated to be original, that is enclosed in a rectangular frame, supported by Ionic columns and framed by fluted moldings. The frames of the 6-over-6 windows project slightly from the clapboard exterior. The foundation and steps to the house is of stone.</p><br>
<p>An alteration saw the addition of two chimneys and additional alterations to the window and door openings on the northeast and southwest sides of the house. It is believed that the central door and window alterations were done as part of the Greek Revival renovations. Luyster states, "urther investigation would undoubtedly reveal additional changes in the interior, including changes in the position of the fireplaces and their chimney connections."</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Nathaniel Backus House is a historic house museum operated by the Faith Trumbull Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution following its completed move in 1952. The Nathaniel Backus House was submitted to the National Register of Historic Places for its historical value in local history and as an example of Greek Revival domestic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Norwich Historic District is a historic district representing the core of the downtown area of the city of Norwich, Connecticut in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It includes 115 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure over a 64 acre area.</p><br>
<p>Norwich was settled by English colonists in the 17th century, and its first wharf was built in 1684. It developed rapidly as a shipping port, with economic activity focused near the waterfront at the confluence of the Shetucket, Yantic, and Thames Rivers. The downtown developed as a linear area just north of the main port area, Main Street forming an east–west axis. The oldest surviving commercial building dates to 1742, and the oldest house to 1745. A major fire in the downtown in 1793 encouraged a shift to brick construction, but growth was squelched by the economic blockades associated with the War of 1812. The downtowns architecture is consequently dominated by Greek Revival and late 19th and early 20th century architecture, which was built when the city was an important point for the transshipment of goods by either rail or ship. By this time, the citys economy had diversified to include banking, textiles, and other water-powered industry. The downtown area includes many intact 18th and 19th-century buildings centered on the now-picturesque harbor.</p><br>
<p>The Carroll Building in Norwich, Connecticut, also known as the Flat Iron Building, was built in 1887. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1982. It is included in the Downtown Norwich Historic District, which is also listed on the NRHP. Originally used as offices and retail stores, the building is now currently used primarily as an apartment building. The Carroll Building is located on a triangular tract created by the intersection of Main and Water Streets. The building is highly visible from Washington Square  and is one of the most noticeable aspects of the downtown streetscape. The building is currently vacant.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The building was commissioned by, Lucius W. Carroll, a commission merchant with investments that included a textile mill. The Carroll Building was a real estate investment of income derived from manufacturing and retailing, an important factor in the development of Downtown Norwich. The building was designed by Stephen C. Earle of Worcester, Massachusetts. It bore resemblance to the Salisbury Building, constructed the year prior, but was more refined. Earle&#39;s works in Norwich are not limited to the Carroll Building, for the Rockwell Building, Lee and Osgood Building, and the A. H. Vaughn & Sons Office. Various business leased spaces in the building, including the Southern New England Telephone between 1894 and 1902. The difficult siting of the building combined with the visual impact made the Carroll Building an excellent example of downtown Norwich architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Constructed in 1887, the Carroll Building is a built on a triangular site between the intersection of Main Street and Water Street in Downtown Norwich. This intersection also takes place at different grades and required the design of the building to be specially adapted to its unique location. The site has an upward incline on the north-to-south axis and slopes downward on the east-to-west axis on Main Street and upwards on the same access for Water Street. The building fully occupies the site and varies between four and five stories tall across the plan. An 18 ft wide semicircular turret projects outward at the intersection of the site.</p><br>
<h2>Modern use</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1980s, Norwich passed an ordinance on property owners that stipulated that properties "shall reflect a level of maintenance in keeping with the standards of the community and not constitute a blighting factor for adjoining property owners." The building was also part of Society of the Founders of Norwich Inc.&#39;s "Walking Through History" guide. In 1992, the Connecticut Trust For Historic Preservation placed the Carroll Building at the top of their list the most important historic sites that were endangered.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, Norwich&#39;s Vibrant Communities Initiative (NVCI) noted that the property was vacant. The Carroll Building structure itself is listed as 9-15 Main Street, but directly opposite and owned by the same owner is 16 Main Street. Though not included in the National Register of Historic Places listing, 16 Main Street was the former site was a Dunkin Donuts shop that has become vacant. NVCI noted that owner of the properties would like to sell and stated total assessed value is $474,000. NVCI reconfirmed the properties iconic nature, but also highlighted structural issues with the roof and floor framing. They also concluded that despite an unusual floorplan, the building would have significant interest for residential units and that the former Dunkin Donuts location could provide 15 parking spaces.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Carroll Building is an excellent example of both Romanesque-style of architecture that is also the best surviving example of commercial Romanesque Revival architecture in Norwich. Earle&#39;s design shows influence of H. H. Richardson, but it is the successful execution and adaptation of the building to the principal intersection of the two streets which is also important. The design maximizes the constricted and different inclines of the site by making essentially two separate buildings connected by a common staircase and utilizing the differences in grade for storefront use. The Carroll Building is also historically significant because it is representative of the real estate practice in the city in the late 19th-century and the wealth and influence of Carroll. Instead of taking up office in the building, Carroll rented the property as a realty investment, the same way in which other prominent buildings in Downtown Norwich were constructed. The building is also situated in a prominent position when viewed from Washington Square and is a notable aspect of the downtown landscape.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Painted Post is a historic post office building located at Painted Post in Steuben County, New York. It was designed in 1937 and built in 1937-1938 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, Louis A. Simon. It is a one-story, three bay structure clad in red brick in the Colonial Revival style. The interior features a 1939 mural by Amy Jones titled "Recording the Victory" and depicting a Revolutionary War scene.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Bean Hill Historic District is a historic district in Norwich, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It consists of a well-preserved collection of buildings focused on the Bean Hill Green, which capture the 19th-century period when Bean Hill was a local center for manufacturing and commercial activity. The district is located in the vicinity of West Town Street  between I-395 and Connecticut Avenue, and also extends northeast along Huntington Avenue to include properties further beyond Bean Hill Plain . The district is about 22 acre in size, with 23 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Been Hill Green is a square parcel of open space bounded by Vegason Avenue, Huntington Avenue, and West Town Street. It was laid out in 1729, forming the centerpiece of a residential nucleus. The buildings facing the green include four houses from the 18th century, as well as the former 1833 Bean Hill Methodist Church, the first Methodist church in Norwich; the Greek Revival architecture has lost its steeple, and is now in commercial use. West Town Street is the major east-west thoroughfare in western Norwich, and was lined in the 19th century by a variety of houses and business, some of which still survive. One example of late 19th-century commercial architecture is at 204 West Town Street, which was built about 1870, on the site of what was believed to be the first house to stand in the area.</p><br>
<p>US Post Office-Bath is a historic post office building located at Bath in Steuben County, New York. It was built in 1931 and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore. It is a two-story symmetrically massed brick structure with a one-story rear wing in the Colonial Revival style. The front facade features a limestone pedimented portico supported by four Corinthian columns. It is located within the Liberty Street Historic District.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Greeneville is a neighborhood of the city of Norwich, Connecticut, United States, located northeast of downtown Norwich along the west bank of the Shetucket River. Most of the neighborhood is designated Greeneville Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register in 2005 and includes 683 contributing buildings, seven other contributing structures, and one other contributing site over a 300 acre area.</p><br>
<p>The district is drawn to "correspond to the village as it was laid out in 1833, but also include additional streets laid out and developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to accommodate population growth. Areas north and south of the district boundaries were excluded...." as those areas included undeveloped land, or fewer contributing relative to non-contributing buildings, or reflected a "shift in architectural character."</p><br>
<p>According to the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation the district "is a historically significant industrial village that was created to support and sustain water-powered industry from 1828 to about 1940. Much of the enduring success of this industrial enterprise can be attributed to the entrepreneurial vision of industrialist William P. Greene (1795–1862). His development of this planned community and a company to deliver a centralized power system, combined with significant technological infrastructure improvements in the late 19th century, supported the largest industrial presence in Norwich. Although nominally a part of the City of Norwich after 1875, from its creation in 1833 until after World War I Greeneville remained a relatively independent and self-sufficient, working-class community-an evolution fully expressed by the district&#39;s large, cohesive collection of generally well-preserved domestic, institutional and commercial architecture. While much of the architecture has the vernacular character expected in a mill town, the district also includes representative examples of the major styles of the period, including Greek Revival, Second Empire, Italianate, and Carpenter Gothic."</p><br>
<p>The Civic Institutions Historic District in New London, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It includes six contributing buildings over a 7 acre area.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Civic Institutions Historic District is located on the western fringe of the developed core of New London. It is roughly bisected by Garfield Avenue, near its western end at Colman Avenue. The district contains the buildings of three city-owned institutions. These include the New London Almshouse, later Hillside Home, Memorial Hospital and the Mitchell Isolation Hospital.</p><br>
<p>On the south side of Garfield Avenue stands the former almshouse, a brick building with two wings joined by a central hyphen. The earlier section was built circa 1867. This is a masonry building in the Italianate style. Construction was in part funded with a donation from businessman and former mayor Jonathan Newton Harris. Fifty years later the building was doubled in size, when a new main building, designed by New London architect James Sweeney, was built in front of the older building. This was a much more elaborate building, designed in the Colonial Revival style. This construction was funded by a bequest from Sebastian Duffy Lawrence, who had died in 1909. The institution was closed in the early 1970s and sold in 1974. It is now a condominium building known as Briarwood Court.</p><br>
<p>On the north side of Garfield Avenue, closer to Colman, is the original Memorial Hospital building, built in 1892, with a wing added the following year. Behind the hospital, facing Walden Street, is a detached hospital building that was built as a dormitory for nurses in 1901. Like the almshouse, construction was funded by Harris. The main buildings are in the Queen Anne style, while the later dormitory for nurses is Colonial Revival. Memorial Hospital operated at this location until 1918, when it was merged with Lawrence Hospital, now Lawrence + Memorial Hospital. The original hospital buildings were later converted for residential use.</p><br>
<p>Facing Colman Street is the Mitchell Isolation Hospital, a single-story Colonial Revival structure completed in 1914 as a facility for segregating patients with highly infectious diseases, including smallpox and tuberculosis. Like the other buildings in the district, its construction was funded through a philanthropic bequest, this time from Annie Olivia Mitchell, a daughter of Charles Lewis Tiffany who had married into a wealthy local family. Donald Grant Mitchell Jr., her nephew, supervised construction. Built as part of Memorial Hospital, it became a separate institution in 1920 after Memorial and Lawrence Hospitals were merged, and ultimately closed in 1953. The design was based on the isolation building of the former Providence City Hospital, designed by Providence architects Martin & Hall and completed in 1911. This building is now Hunt-Cavanaugh Hall of Providence College.</p><br>
<p>These buildings represent the city&#39;s response to the need to provide for its indigent and sick populations in the late 19th century. Architecturally, they are well-preserved specimens of institutional versions of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles popular at the time.</p><br>
<p>The exteriors of the buildings have mostly been little changed since the district was created. The significant alterations were to the almshouse buildings, where wooden brackets were removed from the 1867 building, and the removal of a two-story Ionic portico from the 1917 building.</p><br>
<p>The Coit Street Historic District in New London, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Coit Street is one of New London&#39;s oldest streets, probably laid out in the late 1640s, when houses began to be built facing Bream Cove. The street roughly follows what was historically the coastline of the cove prior to its 19th-century filling and development. Seven acre were purchased in 1694 by the Coit family, an influential family of shipbuilders and businessmen. William Coit, whose house stands at 92 Washington Street, was an active mariner in the American Revolutionary War. As the cove began to be filled in during the 19th century, the area continued to be a desirable residential area, mainly for its proximity to the downtown. Infill development in the second half of the 19th century provided the area with additional architectural diversity.</p><br>
<p>The district is typical of urban 19th-century residential neighborhoods, with densely built housing and narrow streets. The most common architectural style in the district is the Greek Revival, with a significant number of gable-fronted houses dominating the street view. Italianate and Queen Anne styles are also well represented, both in overall house style and as later alterations (typically by the addition of porches and other features) of older buildings.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church and Tashua Burial Ground is a historic property including an Episcopal Church building and cemetery at 5170 Madison Avenue in Trumbull, Connecticut. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Two prior church buildings had been on the site before the cornerstone of the existing church was laid in 1826. This building is believed to have been designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and was consecrated in 1847. The original building was a 36’ X 26’ structure and stood at the north end of the graveyard. The second, larger building was built across from the first and consecrated in 1795 after the first building was abandoned five years earlier.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The current building is an example of Carpenter Gothic, a variant of Neo-Gothic architecture. The church parish is an active part of the community offering online and in person services on Sunday at 9am as well as engaging in outreach globally, regionally, and locally. The church offers regular meditation and prayer groups as well as children&#39;s ministries and regular fellowship gatherings. The church also engages in anti-racism work offering a monthly Anti-Racism Alliance newsletter. Christ church also engages in environmental justice and prayer for our environment through careful attention to the gardens and by offering a full communion service in the midst of hikes through "Wandering Church." The Church mission is: "We open our hearts to Christ and our arms to all" and this church community certainly does that. The parish is committed to prayer and worship and focus on the Bible and embraces all.</p><br>
<h2>Burial ground</h2><br>
<p>The burial ground on the site dates to 1766.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church and parsonage at 61 East Putnam Avenue  in Greenwich, Connecticut. Built in 1868-69 for a Methodist congregation established in 1805, the church is a fine local example of Carpenter Gothic architecture, and the parsonage, built in 1872, is a good example of Italianate architecture. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The congregation is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Greenwichs First Methodist Episcopal is located at the northern end of Greenwichs central business district, on the north side of East Putnam Avenue at Church Street. The church building is a single-story Carpenter Gothic structure, built in 1868-69 for a Methodist congregation established in 1805. The adjacent parsonage, now a community center, is a vernacular Italianate house built in 1872, and has a large modern two-story brick addition at the rear. The church was designed to resemble an English Gothic country church, but now occupies a site surrounded by commercial development.</p><br>
<p>Greenwich was first exposed to Methodist preaching in 1787, when Samuel Q. Talbot began to circuit ride throughout southwestern Fairfield County. The Greenwich Episcopal society was organized in 1805, and its first church was built on this property in 1844, on the location now occupied by the parsonage. The present church was built in 1868-69, and the original church was replaced by the parsonage in 1872. The property originally included a row of horse sheds; these were demolished in 1923. The congregation sought to execute a major update of the building in the 1920s, which failed due to an inability to raise the needed funding; the money that was raised was used to replace the slate roof and add copper gutters.</p><br>
<p>The Unitarian Universalist Church is a historic church at 20 Forest Street in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a modestly-sized Gothic Revival structure, built out of fieldstone, brick, and granite, in 1870 to a design by Stamford architect Gage Inslee. While most of its exterior windows are stenciled in imitation of stained glass, it has two genuine stained glass windows in the choir loft that are between 400 and 700 years old, and were brought over parishioner Thomas Crane. The church rectory, built 1880, is a handsome Victorian Gothic structure with early elements of Queen Anne styling.</p><br>
<p>The church complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Putnam Farm is a historic farm on Spaulding Road in Brooklyn, Connecticut. The property, now just 9 acre of agricultural land with a house  on it, was the centerpiece of a vast landholding in the mid-18th century by Major General Israel Putnam, a major colonial-era military figure who saw action in both the French and Indian War and in the American Revolutionary War. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Putnam Farm is located in a rural area of northern Brooklyn, on the north side of Spaulding Road east of Connecticut Route 169. The house is set among rolling fields, facing roughly south toward the road, which is lined with stone walls. The house is large in size but modest in styling, stories in height, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is eight bays across, with two entrances and asymmetrically placed window bays. Architecturally, it is composed of two separate structures set about 3.5 ft apart, the area in between filled in by walls and flooring. The exterior and interior both have modest examples of Federal period woodwork, including fireplace mantels.</p><br>
<p>Israel Putnam, a native of Danvers, Massachusetts, purchased 500 acre of land in what was then part of Pomfret from Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher in 1739. He was judged one of the area&#39;s successful farmers, raising cattle and sheep. The oldest portion of the present house was built by Putnam about 1750, in order to accommodate his growing family. Putnam served with distinction in the colonial militia during the French and Indian War, and achieved broad recognition throughout the British colonies for his exploits. In 1767 he moved into Brooklyn village, where he operated a tavern and engaged in politics, leaving operation of the farm to his son. Putnam would achieve further renown at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>Putnam&#39;s son sold the farm in 1795 to a neighbor. The house Putnam built was doubled in size in the early 19th century, at which time it was also given modest Federal styling. In 1839 it was purchased by Joshua Collins, whose family owned it for over 100 years. The Collinses sold off most of the farmland after World War II, leaving the house standing on about 9 acre.</p><br>
<p>The Zion Lutheran Church  is a historic Lutheran church building at 132 Glenbrook Road in Stamford, Connecticut. The red brick Gothic Revival structure was built in 1925 by a German immigrant congregation founded in 1897. It is the city&#39;s only red brick church. The main facade is dominated by a square tower on the right, which rises only to the height of the roof gable on the left. The gable stands above a large quadruple window set in a slightly pointed arch, which stands above the main entrance, which is recessed in an arched opening.</p><br>
<p>The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Rectory and Church of the Immaculate Conception is a historic Roman Catholic church complex at 4 North Street in Norfolk, Connecticut. The church and adjacent rectory are two 19th-century buildings that were extensively altered by architect Alfredo S. G. Taylor in 1925. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its association with the architect. The church is part of a unified parish with St. Joseph Catholic Church in Canaan Village.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Church of the Immaculate Conception stands on the northern edge of the village of Norfolk, on the east side of North Street (Connecticut Route 272) at its northern junction with United States Route 44. The main church building is a cruciform tall single-story building, which is basically a wood-frame structure finished in stucco and covered by a cross-gabled roof. The church was originally a somewhat typically Greek Revival mid-19th century New England country church in appearance, but is now fronted by a larger stuccoed tower with a rubblestone base that gradually transitions to stucco. The rectory stands immediately north of the church; it is a basically square two-story wood-frame structure with a hip roof, whose exterior has been finished in stucco to match the church.</p><br>
<p>The alterations of the original church building were designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a New York City architect who summered in Norfolk for several decades in the early 20th century. Taylor is credited with more than 30 designs in Norfolk, including this work. It typifies Taylor&#39;s use of stone in many of his designs, with the stucco serving to give the building a somewhat Spanish Revival appearance. The design documents Taylor prepared also include drawings for an altar, one of the rare surviving examples of his interior design drawings. The altar he designed is not the one presently in use.</p><br>
<p>Hallville Mill Historic District is a historic district in the town of Preston, Connecticut, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Contributing properties in the district are 23 buildings, two other contributing structures, and one other contributing site over a 50 acre area.</p><br>
<p>Hallville is a historic textile mill village. The first mill on the local stream, Indiantown Brook, was a fulling mill built in 1752 for finishing of locally produced homespun woolen cloth.</p><br>
<p>The district has significance "as an intact representative small-scale 19th-century mill village containing a high concentration of contributing buildings and structures built as components of a company-owned town based initially on so-called Rhode Island manufacturing system." As such, the mill and its associated village provide physical evidence of the area&#39;s economic transition to industrial production during the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Route 2A, a two-lane undivided highway, passes through Hallville. Increased traffic volumes on this road, attributed to the nearby Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos, are considered to be a threat to the historic character of the village.</p><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s is a historic Episcopal church at 247 New Milford Turnpike , in the Marbledale village of Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut. Built in 1822, it is believed to be one of the first Gothic Revival style churches to be built in rural Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>St. Andrew&#39;s is located in the rural village of Marbledale, on the south side of New Milford Turnpike at its junction with Wheaton Road. It is a brick structure with a projecting square tower whose upper stages are finished in wood, and slightly projecting transepts. It has Gothic-style lancet windows with marble sills and wood frames. A 20th-century brick addition to the rear provides office and meeting spaces, and a kitchen.</p><br>
<p>The St. Andrew&#39;s Episcopalian congregation was established in 1764 in New Preston. The largely Loyalist congregation was harassed during the American Revolutionary War, and abandoned its original building, meeting in private homes. Formed anew in 1791, the congregation rented and then purchased a local Quaker meeting house, which served as its home until 1816. The present edifice was begun in 1821 and completed in 1823. The church was enlarged in 1855, mainly through the efforts of Dr. Nathaniel Wheaton, one of the founders of Trinity College who may have been born here. The only earlier known example of Gothic Revival architecture in Connecticut is the 1814 Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, designed by Ithiel Town.</p><br>
<p>The South Canaan Congregational Church is a historic Congregational church building at Connecticut Route 63 and Barnes Road in the town of Canaan, Connecticut. Built in 1804, it is a remarkably, well-preserved example of early Federal period church architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The South Canaan Congregational Church is located in central western Canaan, at the southwest corner of Barnes Road and CT 63. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and stone foundation. A two-stage square tower rises from the roof ridge, including a belfry stage and octagonal spire. The main roof eave and first tower stage cornice are decorated with modillion blocks, and the building corners have wooden quoin blocks. The front facade is three bays wide, with a project center entrance bay topped by a pedimented gable. The entrance is framed by pilasters and a pedimented gable, and is topped by a Palladian window; Palladian windows are also found on the first stage of the tower, and at the building rear above the pulpit. The interior retains the original early 19th-century layout, and a wealth of high-quality Federal decorative woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The South Canaan Church is one of three Connecticut churches modeled after a church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, that was built in 1793 according to a design by Charles Bulfinch. As such, it is a representative of the first generation of architecturally stylish church buildings, built between 1790 and 1810, that were replacing the earlier plain-style meetinghouses. At the time of its construction, the church&#39;s site in South Canaan was the approximate geographic center of the town of Canaan, which was then a farming community and included the area that later became the town of North Canaan. In later decades of the 19th century, South Canaan was eclipsed in importance by the new manufacturing centers of Falls Village and East Canaan and the railroad-junction community of Canaan village.</p><br>
<p>As of 1982, the building was no longer used as a church but was preserved by a local historical society.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is a historic episcopal church at 160 Main Street in Thomaston, Connecticut. Built in two stages, 1871 and 1880, to a design by Richard M. Upjohn, it is a good example of Gothic and Stick Style architecture. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is now part of a merged parish with St. Peter&#39;s of Plymouth.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Trinity Church is prominently located in the center of Thomaston, between the opera house and the public library on the north side of Main Street. It is a wood frame Stick style structure, with a complex roof line and a board-and-batten exterior that is a modern aluminum covering for the original, which lies underneath. Its main roof has a front-facing gable, from which cross gables at full height extend, giving a basically cruciform shape to the roof. At the front there is a hip-roofed extension to the left, and a gabled extension to the right that ends in the square tower. A larger hip-roofed cross section extends at the back of the main building. The tower is square for two stories, then begins a steeply-pitched roof section that ends in an open belfry, with a small pyramidal roof at the top. Stick decorations adorn its gables. The interior is modestly decorated, with exposed curved roof trusses, and decorative woodwork in the chancel area.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by Richard M. Upjohn, and is in some respects a continuation of his fathers promotion of the Gothic Revival, albeit in a more modern sense. The younger Upjohns best-known work is the Connecticut State Capitol, and he had already designed four similar churches when he created the design for the Thomaston church, which is larger and more elaborate than those earlier designs.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church is a historic church at 536 Milton Road in the Milton section of Litchfield, Connecticut. Built beginning in 1802, it is a distinctive blend of Gothic and Classical Revival architecture that is rare in rural Connecticut. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
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<p>Trinity Church stands in the village of Milton, on the north side of Milton Road just east of its junction with Shearshop Road. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. It has tall Gothic-arched windows on the front and sides, and its main entrance is set in a Gothic-arched recess, framed by pilasters and a cornice. A fully pedimented gable above has a small Gothic window. The tower rising above the roof ridge has Gothic-arched louvered openings in the square belfry stage, and pinnacles at the corners beside the steeple base. The interior houses an organ that was built in 1823, making it possibly the oldest in New England.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was established in 1795 as an offshoot of the St. Michaels Episcopal Church located in Litchfields main village. This church was designed and built by Oliver Dickinson, with its construction beginning in 1802 and ending in 1826. Dickinson began his design in 1802, seeking to emulate the second building of the Trinity Church in Manhattan (torn down in 1839).</p><br>
<p>The Union Church/St. Paul&#39;s Church is a historic church building at 3 Robertsville Road in the Riverton section of Barkhamsted, Connecticut. Built in 1829 to be shared by multiple congregations, it is an architecturally distinguished example of Greek Revival design with Gothic features. It became an Episcopal church in 1880 which closed in 1971, and served for a time as a local history museum. It now houses a glass-blowing studio. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
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<p>The former Union Church/St. Paul&#39;s Church building is located on the west side of Riverton village, on the south side of Robertsville Road west of its junction with Riverton Road (Connecticut Route 20). It is a granite structure with Greek Revival proportions, but with tall Gothic Revival windows. A two-stage square tower projects from the main facade, with a stone lower stage topped by stages of wood with pinnacles at the corners. The walls are randomly coursed ashlar. The interior retains many original features despite its adaptive reuse in the later 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1829, originally to serve as a common meeting house for several Christian denominations. As they grew and built their own churches, this one declined, and was eventually converted to St. Pauls Episcopal Church in 1880. It served in this role until 1971, when it was sold to the revived Hitchcock Chair Company, who opened a museum. The museum closed in the early 2000s (along with the chair factory), and the church was then repurposed as a glass-blowers studio by Peter Greenwood.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Congregational Church is a historic Congregational Church at 4 Sackett Hill Road in Warren, Connecticut. Built in 1820, it is a well-preserved example of Federal architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
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<p>The Warren Congregational Church occupies a prominent position in the small village center of Warren, at the southwest corner of Sackett Hill Road and Kent Road (Connecticut Route 341). It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a projecting entry pavilion topped by a gabled pediment. The pavilion is divided into three bays by two-story pilasters, with each bay containing an entrance. The identical entrances are slightly recessed behind a frame of pilasters, and are topped by half-round transom windows. Above each of the outer entrances are sash windows with shutters. The pediment has a three-part window in the center, consisting of a round window resting on two smaller half-rounds.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the church began in 1818 and was formally completed in 1820. It was built as a replacement for a Georgian style meetinghouse built in 1769 for a congregation established in 1750, when the area was still part of Kent. Its design is fairly typical of Federal style churches of the period, drawing its inspiration from pattern books such as the American Builders Companion published in 1803 by Asher Benjamin. Its pulpit is one of only three Federal-period pulpits documented in the state. The Palladian window above the window is a careful restoration of the original, carried out in the 20th century by one of Connecticuts leading architectural historians of the early 20th century, J. Frederick Kelly.</p><br>
<p>Bozrah Congregational Church and Parsonage is a historic church and parsonage at 17 and 23 Bozrah Street in Bozrah, Connecticut. The church, built in 1843, is a well-preserved example of churches transitional between Federal period meeting house architecture and 19th-century Greek Revival church architecture. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
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<p>The Bozrah Congregational Church is located near the village center of Bozrah, on the west side of Bozrah Street overlooking Fitchville Pond. The church is a rectangular -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Paneled pilasters rise at the building corners to an entablature that encircles the building, and the front-facing gable is fully pedimented. A two-stage belltower is capped by a round cupola and weathervane. The front facade is three bays wide, articulated by pilasters, with entrances in each of the outer bays. The interior is simply finished, with bench pews. The parsonage, a Victorian frame house built in 1872, stands a few hundred feet to the south.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was established in 1737, when the area was still part of Norwich. Its first meeting house was also used for civic affairs after the town was incorporated in 1786. In the early 1840s the congregation debated repairing or replacing its old meeting house, eventually deciding to construct this building, which was completed sufficiently to be used in 1843. Architecturally, it follows in the tradition of older meeting houses in its form and interior, albeit with Greek Revival style popular at the time.</p><br>
<p>The J. S. Halpine Tobacco Warehouse is a historic tobacco warehouse at West and Mill Streets in New Milford, Connecticut. Built c. 1900–02 for one of the areas leading tobacco processors, it is a reminder of tobaccos historic economic importance in northwestern Connecticut. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
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<p>The J.S. Halpine Tobacco Warehouse stands in what is now a largely residential area south of downtown New Milford, at the southwest corner of West and Mill Streets, and adjacent to the railroad tracks of the Housatonic Railroad. It is a -story brick structure, with a two-stage roof that is mostly gabled, with a slight gambrel. Its modest stylistic elements include segmented-arch window openings and a gabled surround for the main pedestrian entrance, which is on the north side. Openings formerly used for loading and unloading tobacco (now largely boarded over) are located on the long east and west facade. The interior has heavy timber framing supporting wooden floors.</p><br>
<p>The warehouse was built c. 1900–02, at a time when this region of the Housatonic River valley was a major tobacco production region. It was built for J.S. Halpine, agent for Rossin & Sons, a tobacco firm that was at the time one of the regions largest employers. The property was used for tobacco sorting and curing until that business collapsed in the late 1930s. During this period the Housatonic valley produced cigar wrapping leaves for major domestic cigar manufacturers. This warehouse is one of the few buildings left in New Milford that is associated with that business and time period, and is the regions largest surviving tobacco warehouse.</p><br>
<p>The Huntington Street Baptist Church is a historic Baptist Church meeting house at 29 Huntington Street in New London, Connecticut. Built in 1843 by John Bishop, who also designed it, it is one of the last major examples of Greek Revival architecture to be built in the city. The church was built by a Universalist congregation and then purchased by a Baptist one. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Huntington Street Baptist Church is located west of downtown New London, on the east side of Huntington Street south of Jay Street. It is prominently visible to the surrounding area, due to its siting on a large granite outcrop. It is a single-story brick structure, its exterior finished in stucco and covered by a gabled roof. The front facade is dominated by a projecting portico, which has six fluted Corinthian columns rising to an entablature and fully pedimented gable with dentil moulding. The facade behind the portico is plain except for the entrance at the center. A two-stage square tower rises above the portico. The interior retains many original Greek Revival details, many of which are based on close copies of designs published in pattern books by Minard Lafever.</p><br>
<p>The churchs construction has its origin in a religious conflict within New Londons Baptist congregations. During the 1830s, an increasing number of congregants, as well as at least one minister, began adopting Universalist views, which conservative elements within the Baptist leadership considered heresy. Jabez Swan, a fiery opponent of Universalism, led a revival in 1842 that prompted the Universalists to split. This church was built the following year, sited deliberately to have the highest church steeple in the city, and to overlook the citys Baptist churches. Its builder and designer was John Bishop, a member of the Universalist congregation. Bishops designed was inspired by The Beauties of Modern Architecture (1835) by Minard LaFever.</p><br>
<p>The cost of the church was an extreme burden on the Universalist congregation, and its members were unhappy with the preaching of the minister, Thomas Greenwood. They were forced to sell the building for $12,000 in 1849; the buyer was a new Baptist congregation led by Jabez Smith Swan, formed by members of the First Baptist Church. The church was rededicated on March 29, 1849.</p><br>
<p>The Allis-Bushnell House is a historic house at 853 Boston Post Road in Madison, Connecticut. It was built in 1785 and in 1982, was placed into the National Register of Historic Places. The house is owned by the Madison Historical Society and operated as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1772, the 94.5-acre tract upon which the home stands was sold off to four individuals, which included Nathaniel Allis Sr. The tract was divided, and Allis received a portion including the site of the Allis-Bushnell House. Following more transfers, by 1774 David Landon and Samuel Brown were the owners of the property. Aaron Blatchley brought the land from Brown and Landon in 1785. The house was constructed as a 1-story building. It contained two sizeable rooms at the front with a smaller kitchen and bedroom behind. On the second floor, there were four small rooms. At an unknown point in the house&#39;s history, the roof was raised along the front facade to create a full second floor. The Victorian addition was likely added after the Civil War. The property was constructed from April 23, 1785 (upon the four acres being purchased by Blatchley) to December 16, 1789 (when Blatchy sold the "dwelling house").</p><br>
<p>In 1917, the Madison Historical Society rented the property for its collections and as somewhere to meet. On July 13, 1920, the organization purchased the property as well as 0.56 acres. Until 2010, the house was the Madison Historical Society&#39;s headquarters. The house can be accessed by members and the public for special events.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of Cheshire is a historic church at 111 Church Drive in Cheshire, Connecticut. Built in 1827, it was designed by David Hoadley and is a prominent local example of Federal period architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
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<p>The First Congregational Church is located in Cheshire&#39;s town center, on the west side of Connecticut Route 10 opposite the town hall. It is separated by CT 10 by a surviving element of the town green, now owned and managed by the church, and is accessed via Church Drive. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade has a projecting four-column temple front, with round fluted columns rising to Ionic capitals and a fully pedimented gable. Straddling the projecting and the main roof is a tower, with a square base section housing a clock, two octagonal stages (one of which houses an open belfry), and a conical steeple ending in a cross.</p><br>
<p>Five other Congregational churches were built on essentially the same design in the Connecticut towns of Old Lyme (the 1816-17 Old Lyme Congregational Church), Milford (1823), Litchfield (the 1829 First Congregational Church of Litchfield), Southington (1830), and Guilford (the 1830 First Congregational Church of Guilford). All six churches have front porticos with four fluted columns, the doors of all six have the same dimensions, all six steeples are of the same design and are surmounted by weathervanes that appear to have been cast from one mold, and all six churches have twenty-over-twenty double-hung windows. The similarities suggest that some of the building elements may have been prefabricated.</p><br>
<p>The Beardsley–Mix House is a historic house at 81 Rockledge Drive in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1774, it is one of the town&#39;s few surviving 18th-century buildings. It was originally located on South Main Street, and was moved to its present location in the 1930s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Beardsley–Mix House stands on the south side of Rockledge Drive, a residential street just east of South Main Street and south of downtown West Hartford. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade faces north, and is five bays wide, with a slightly overhanging second story. The centered entry is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, which support an entablature and gabled pediment.</p><br>
<p>This house was probably built around 1774, on land that was transferred in that year from Noah Webster Sr. (father to the famous Noah Webster, Jr.) to Adam Webster. It and the associated farmland were bought in 1810 by Elisha Mix, who later sold it to Jeremiah Beardslee. After Beardslee died, the property passed to his son-in-law, Henry Mix. The farmland was subdivided in the 1930s, the house moved back from South Main Street to its present location around that time. It is one of West Hartford&#39;s few remaining 18th century houses.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of East Haven  is a historic church at 251 Main Street in East Haven, Connecticut. It was built in 1772-74 by George Lancraft, a local builder, and is one of Connecticuts few surviving pre-Revolutionary churches. It is also one of New Englands oldest stone churches, preceded principally by King&#39;s Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
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<p>The First Congregational Church of East Haven occupies a prominent position at the eastern end of the town green in the center of East Haven. It is a 2-1/2 story structure, built out of red sandstone quarried in nearby Fair Haven, and mortared with a combination of historic lime mortar and more recent cement mortar. A square tower rises from the west-facing main facade, with three levels of base surmounted by a clock stage, a wooden belfry with late Georgian features, and an octagonal steeple. Entrances are set in the bays flanking the tower. Windows are set in rectangular openings with stone sills and flared lintels, and there is a slightly projecting stringcourse between the floors. The interior is reflective of an 1850 renovation, in which the pulpit was moved from the long north wall to the east end. At that time, the main entrance was also relocated; it had originally been placed at the center of the long south wall, a traditional placement for colonial meeting houses.</p><br>
<p>The church was built in 1772-74 by George Lancraft, a stonemason from Fair Haven. It was designed in part by Lancraft and by the congregation&#39;s building committee, which made alterations (including lengthening the building and adding the tower) while it was under construction. The church was looted of its silver during a British raid in the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The Moses Brace–Uriah Cadwell House is a historic house at 11 Flagg Road in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1766, it is one of West Hartford&#39;s few surviving 18th-century buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Moses Brace–Uriah Cadwell House is located in northern West Hartford, on the south side of Flagg Road just west of its junction with Albany Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a large central chimney and gabled roof. The main entrance is located in the second bay from the right, and is flanked by pilasters and topped by a simple entablature. It is unusually deep for a house of its period, with broader and shallower eaves. The corners are finished with slender pilasters. A 20th-century single-car garage is connected to the right side by a breezeway.</p><br>
<p>The first house to stand in this area was built in 1733 by Ebenezer Steele. It was sold by Thomas Merrell to Moses Brace in 1790, and was purchased by Uriah Cadwell in 1811. This house was built on the western portion of Steele&#39;s property in 1766, which was purchased by Uriah Cadwell in 1799. Cadwell replaced the original Steele house in 1811. Cadwell apparently lived in the other house while this one underwent alterations, sometime between 1811 and 1832.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Carmel Congregational Church and Parish House is a historic church complex at 3280 and 3284 Whitney Avenue and 195 Sherman Avenue in Hamden, Connecticut. It consists of an 1840 Greek Revival church with a tetrastyle temple front portico, and a 1911 Colonial Revival parish house. A non-contributing 1925 sextons house is also on the property. The church is considered to be Hamdens finest example of Greek Revival architecture, and the parish house one of its finest Colonial Revival houses. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
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<p>The Mount Carmel Congregational Church complex is located in northern Hamden, on the west side of Whitney Avenue (Connecticut Route 10) at its junction with Sherman Avenue. The church occupies the south end of the property, facing east toward Whitney Avenue. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. A two-stage square tower rises above the roof, with corner pilasters and a cornice on each stage and a cross as a spire. The building is encircled by an entablature, and is fronted by a Greek temple portico, with fluted Ionic columns rising to a fully pedimented gable. The parish house, located to its north, is also a single story, with a hip roof and a columned entrance portico that echoes that of the church.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Carmel congregation was organized in 1757, when the area was still part of New Haven. Its first meeting house was located north of this site, and was where the town of Hamden&#39;s first town meeting was held in 1786. By the 1820s, the need for a new building was apparent to the congregants, and the present church was completed in 1840 after a lengthy debate and planning process. The church interior was remodeled in 1870, at which time its pipe organ was installed. The parish house was built in 1911; it was originally separated from the church by Sherman Avenue, which was realigned to its north in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Jonathan Murray House is a historic house at 76 Scotland Road in Madison, Connecticut. Built about 1690, it is one of a handful of 17th-century houses surviving in the state. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Jonathan Murray House is located in a rural-residential setting northeast of Madison Center, on the south side of Scotland Road a short way east of its junction with Bishop Lane. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with clapboard siding, a stone foundation, and a large central chimney. The roof is distinctive in beginning a short way above the top of the first floor, even though there is a full second story. The facade is five bays wide, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance. The windows and entrance transom butt against an overhang marking the start of the second story, which is separated from the eave by several rows of siding. The interior retains many original features, including fireplaces and fireplace surrounds, cabinetry, wide board flooring, and portions of original (or very old) plaster.</p><br>
<p>It is presumed, based on available documentary evidence and architectural analysis, that this house was built about 1690 by Jonathan Murray, a Scottish settler who arrived in the New Haven Colony in 1685. It is one of the state&#39;s small number of 17th-century houses. It remained in the Murray family until 1800, and then the Neeley family until 1923. It was first fitted with electricity and plumbing in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The First Church Parsonage is a historic parsonage house at 160 Palisado Avenue in Windsor, Connecticut. Built in 1852 for the new minister of the First Congregational Church, it is a well-preserved example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate architecture in brick. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The former First Church Parsonage stands a short way north of Windsor&#39;s Palisado Green, on the east side of Palisado Avenue (Connecticut Route 159). It is a -story brick structure, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof. A full entablature extends around the sides and front of the house, just below the roof line, and forming an enclosed pediment in the gable end. The main entrance, set in the leftmost bay, is sheltered by an early 20th-century Colonial Revival portico. The ground-floor front windows on the west and south sides are tall French-style windows. The property includes a 19th-century barn.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1852 by the First Congregational Church for the Reverend Leete, whose service began that year. It was the first church-funded parsonage for the congregation. It is a good local example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate styling. It was originally adorned with an elaborate Italianate front porch.</p><br>
<p>St. Peters Episcopal Church is a historic church complex at 61, 71, and 81 River Street in Milford, Connecticut. It includes a Gothic Revival church built out of Portland, Connecticut brownstone in 1850–51, and a rectory and parish hall, added on either side of the church in the mid-1890s. The church is a significant work of Frank Wills, a major proponent of the Gothic Revival. The church is also one of the few surviving 19th-century buildings in Milfords civic center. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
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<p>St. Peter&#39;s Episcopal Church stands in the city center of Milford, set between the Wepawaug River and River Street a short way north of the commercial downtown area. It is a large masonry structure, built out of brownstone from Portland, Connecticut. It has a basically cruciform plan, with the tower taking up one of the short branches of the cross. It has a square base in which the main building entrance is located, an octagonal second stage topped by a crenellations, and an octagonal spire. The building exhibits typical Gothic Revival features, including buttresses demarcating the building bays, narrow arched windows, and finials at the rooftop gable ends.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican congregation in Milford was founded in the mid-18th century, with informal services beginning as early as the 1730s under the auspices of Samuel Johnson. The congregation was formally organized in 1764, and its first church was built in 1775 in the immediate area of the current church. The present building was built in 1850-51 to replace the earlier structure, which was in need of extensive repairs. Architect Frank Wills, a major proponent of the Ecclesiological movement which espoused a return to Gothic features for churches, was retained to design the new building. The church is one of the best early examples of that movement&#39;s architectural principles.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church of East Hartford and Parsonage is a historic church at 829-837 Main Street in East Hartford, Connecticut. The congregation was founded around 1699 and the current church building was constructed around 1833. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The congregation is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ.</p><br>
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<p>First Congregational Church of East Hartford was founded somewhere between 1699 and 1701. The original members used to have to travel across the Connecticut River to Central Church in Hartford. The weekly quest began to take a toll on its traveling members, who decided to start their own church on the eastern side of the river. The building was completed in 1699, and the members began worshiping here, but had to gain religious approval by the King of England. The church received their anticipated approval in 1701, when the church officially gained its status as a recognized church. The churchs first meeting house was actually built down the street from its current residence. There is now a large stone on the corner of Pitkin Street and Main Street marking the site of the first meeting house, which burned in the late 18th century. After the fire, the building was resurrected at its current site, on the corner of Main Street and Connecticut Boulevard. Then, in 1834, there was a second fire. Luckily, the building was not lost in this blaze. In 1835, the church was rebuilt, using charred timbers from its predecessor, which can still be seen in the churchs attic). The organ in the sanctuary was originally built into the balcony to look out over the congregation on Sunday mornings. In 1952, the organ was moved down to the front of the sanctuary. The sanctuary itself was remodeled around the same time, turning its four aisles to just three.</p><br>
<p>The parsonage, next door to the church, was constructed in 1850, and served as the residence of the minister of the church, Rev. Woodward. The later-named Woodward house served in the capacity until the mid-20th century, when it was turned into an extra meeting place for the churchs many groups and boards. Soon thereafter, daycare was held in the parsonage during the church services. Then in the early 1990s, the churchs sexton was given the opportunity to live in part of the parsonage, as the front area was turned into offices. These offices were, in turn, rented out to various organizations, such as Esperanza Nueva Iglesia and the YWCA of East Hartford. The parsonage has also been the site of a few community service projects, including the rebuilding of the front steps and railings in a Boy Scout Eagle Project in 2004.</p><br>
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<p>The present church is a fine local example of Greek Revival architecture. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a Greek temple front consisting of six Ionic columns supporting a fully pedimented triangular gable above an entablature that encircles the building. The tympanum of the pediment is adorned with a round wagon-wheel spoked window. A two-story tower with belfry and clock rises above front facade, its corners embellished by pilasters.</p><br>
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<p>First Congregational Church has been a rock in the town of East Hartford, as it is the site of many blood drives for the American Red Cross, home of an East Hartford YMCA First Church child care center serving children ages 3 – 5 years during the weekdays, and, until 2008, was the interim meeting place of Esperanza Nueva Iglesia (New Hope Church), a local Hispanic congregational in search for a more permanent home. First Church is also proud to boast that it is the home of the oldest continuously sponsored Boy Scout troop in the United States. Boy Scout Troop 1 was founded October 14, 1910, and has called First Church home ever since its inception. The troop is now celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. There is also a Cub Scout pack the meets at the church, as well as a Girl Scout troop and a Brownie troop.</p><br>
<p>The members of First Church range in age from newborns to century-old "lifers." First Congregational Church of East Hartford is one of only a handful of churches in the country that can say has had a half-dozen 100-year-old members, with four of them being baptized in the church as babies. The church is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ. Worship services are held every Sunday at 10am with Sunday School for children (ages infant to high school) held simultaneously.</p><br>
<p>The Whitneyville Congregational Church, now the Whitneyville United Church of Christ, is a historic Congregational Church at 1247-1253 Whitney Avenue in the Whitneyville section of Hamden, Connecticut, United States. The congregation is now affiliated with the United Church of Christ . The church building is a Greek Revival style built in 1834, with an interior altered in 1866 to designs by Rufus G. Russell. The church, along with its 1924 parish house, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995 for its architecture.</p><br>
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<p>The Whitneyville Congregational Church stands in the Whitneyville village of southeastern Hamden, on the east side of Whitney Avenue just east of Ralston Avenue. It is a single-story frame structure, covered by a gabled roof and finished mainly in clapboards. The front facade resembles a Greek temple front, with square pilastered corners, entrances recessed behind fluted Doric columns, and a gable pediment whose tympanum is flushboarded. The corners of the entrance recess are also pilastered, giving the appearance of square columns set in antes. The interior has a small vestibule area at the rear, and is otherwise a single large sanctuary chamber, with a gallery level supported by columns with Corinthian capitals. Just north of the church is its 1924 parish house, a Colonial Revival two-story brick building housing offices, classrooms, and a small auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The church congregation was established in 1795, and built its first sanctuary in the Hamden Plains area. By 1833 the first church was too small, and the search began for land to build a larger structure. A gift of land from the Whitney family convinced the congregation to relocate to Whitneyville, then a community undergoing rapid growth due to the nearby Eli Whitney Gun Factory. The church was completed in 1834; its designer is not known. The interior underwent a Victorian restyling in 1866 under the auspices of Rufus G. Russell, a New Haven architect and protegé of Henry Austin.</p><br>
<p>The Woodbridge Green Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic town center of Woodbridge, Connecticut. It is located in the block bounded on the south by Center Road , on the east by Newton Road, and on the north and west by Meetinghouse Lane. The center is a good example of early 20th-century town planning, with good examples of Colonial and Classical Revival architecture. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
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<p>The town green of Woodbridge is located on the north side of Connecticut Route 114, with Meetinghouse Lane as its primary means of circulation. The northern end of the district is anchored by the First Congregational Church, a class New England Greek Revival church built in 1832, and its adjacent Colonial Revival parish house. The church complex is separated from Meetinghouse Lane by a church-owned green. To its west stands Woodbridge&#39;s town hall, while to its south stands a complex of buildings which includes a former school (now serving as a community center and police station), the town library, and an old fire station. All of these buildings date to the period between the world wars, and have strong Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>Woodbridge was originally known as Amity Parish, and was part of New Haven. In 1784 the town of Woodbridge was established by the separation of Amity and Bethany from New Haven. Its original town center was located north of the current one, and faded away after Bethany was incorporated in 1832. In that year, Woodbridge&#39;s First Congregational Church was built at this site, the genesis of what would become the town center. The town remained a small agricultural community until the rise of the automobile in the early 20th century began its change into a more suburban area. This growth spurred the town to create a focused center for town civic affairs, resulting in the construction of most of the buildings around the green.</p><br>
<p>The former Grace Church Rectory is a historic church rectory and house at 301 Broad Street in Windsor, Connecticut. Built about 1865, it is a good local example of Gothic Revival architecture executed in brick. It was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
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<p>The former Grace Church Rectory is located in the town center of Windsor, on the east side of Broad Street, just north of the church itself. It is a -story brick structure with a steeply pitched slate roof. A projecting pavilion in the front is decorated with vergeboard, as are the main entranceway and other gable ends. A single-story porch extends to the right of the pavilion, supported by chamfered posts with Gothic brackets. The main entrance is sheltered by this porch, and is framed by sidelights and a transom window. Gable sections on the building sides continue the Gothic decorations found on the front facade. Windows are set in groups of one to three in size, with stone sills and lintels. A single-story wood frame well extends to the main block&#39;s rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1865, and is one of the best local examples of Gothic Revival architecture. It was built by the church as a home for its rector, Revel H. Tuttle.</p><br>
<p>Pine Orchard Union Chapel is a historic nondenominational chapel at 25 Chapel Drive in Branford, Connecticut. Built in 1897, it is one of a modest number of seasonal resort chapels built along the Connecticut coastline, and a particularly fine example of one with Queen Anne styling. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
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<p>The Pine Orchard Union Chapel is located in the Pine Orchard summer resort area of eastern Branford, at the junction of Chapel Drive and Pine Orchard Street. It is a modest wood frame building, with a flared gable roof whose eaves have exposed rafter tails. A small belfry stands atop the roof, and there is bargeboard and latticework decoration in the gable ends. The interior consists of a small vestibule, and a large open sanctuary, with timbered roof trusses exposed, pine floors and wainscoting, and brass chandeliers. A water closet was added off the vestibule early in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Pine Orchard was first developed as a summer resort area in the 1850s, but experienced major growth as a resort in the 1880s and early 1890s. Its summer residents first seriously considered construction of a seasonal chapel in 1895, and had by the following year raised sufficient funds to begin construction. The present building, designed by Brown and Berger of New Haven, was formally dedicated on July 4, 1897. The original cost for the building was $1,532, with an additional cost of $125 to paint the exterior. In addition to hosting services every July and August, it also hosted lectures and musical performances as well as social events. It continues to be used today, mainly for weddings, memorial services, and meetings.</p><br>
<p>The Marlborough Congregational Church is a historic Congregational Church at 35 South Main Street in Marlborough, Connecticut. Built in 1842, it is a well-preserved example Greek Revival architecture. In addition hosting religious services, it also hosted town meetings for many years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
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<p>The Marlborough Congregational Church stands near the southern fringe of the village center of Marlborough, at the junction of South Main Street and Johnson Road. Set on a rise facing north, it is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof. Its main facade has a recessed central area, in which a wide double door provides entrance to the building. This is set behind a pair of fluted Doric columns, and the recess is framed by pilasters at either end, as are the corners of the building. The pilasters and pillars support a simple entablature that extends along the sides of the building, above which is a fully pedimented gable pediment. A three-stage square tower rises above the entrance, the upper two stages with louvered centers and corner pilasters, with a shallow dome and weathervane at the top.</p><br>
<p>The town of Marlborough was incorporated in 1803 from territory taken from surrounding towns. Its congregational society was established in 1747, with the construction of a meetinghouse. By the 1830s, that building was too small for the congregation, and the present building was constructed in 1842 with funds raised by subscription. Although Connecticut had formally required separation of church and civic functions in 1818, the church continued to be used for local town meetings into the 20th century, because it was the only building in the small community with large enough seating capacity. In addition to hosting religious services, the building has been the site of community meetings and social events.</p><br>
<p>The Rocky Hill Congregational Church is a historic church at 805-817 Old Main Street in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, USA. Built in 1808 for a 1723 congregation, it is a distinctive late example of Georgian architecture, and a prominent landmark in the town center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>The Rocky Hill Congregational Church stands prominently in Rocky Hill&#39;s town center, on a triangular site encompassed by Church, Old Main, and Center Streets. It is a two-story gable-roof wood-frame structure resting on a brownstone foundation. It has distinctive late Georgian styling, with a projecting gabled entry section with corner pilasters, and three doorways. The central doorway is framed by engaged columns and topped by triangular modillioned pediment, while the flanking doorways are framed by pilasters and topped by an entablature and modillioned cornice. A three-stage square tower, housing a clock and belfry rises at a small setback from the projecting entry section.</p><br>
<p>The first church in Rocky Hill was built in 1727, after it was established as a separate parish of Wethersfield. By 1800 there were calls in the congregation for a new church. In 1805 it was agreed to build a new structure, modeled on a church in Middletown. Construction was begun the same year, and the new building was dedicated in 1808. After a lean period of membership in the late 19th century, the congregation rebounded, and funded construction of the adjacent parish house 1948–52 to a design by Kelly & Kelly architects. The building is noted for its fine Georgian features, and was documented in the 1830s as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey.</p><br>
<p>St. Johns Episcopal Church is a historic church building at 1160 Main Street in East Hartford, Connecticut. It was designed by Edward T. Potter and was built in 1867, and is a prominent local example of High Gothic Revival executed in stone. Its congregation, begun as an Episcopal mission in 1854, has recently been merged into the St. Johns Episcopal Church in Vernon. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>St. John&#39;s occupies a prominent location in downtown East Hartford, occupying a lot bounded on three sides by Main Street (United States Route 5), Burnside Avenue (United States Route 44), and Rector Street. It is a large single-story brownstone structure, with a steeply-pitched polychrome slate roof, and a series of lancet-arched Gothic windows in the gable end facing the street. At the rear of the church, oriented perpendicular to its main axis, is a parish hall, built in 1912, in an early use of concrete blocks as a building material.</p><br>
<p>The first Episcopal mission in East Hartford was established by students of Trinity College in 1842, but did not last. A second effort in 1852 was more successful, resulting in the formal establishment of the mission in 1854. Prior to the construction of this building, the congregation met in a variety of locations, and had several different names before settling on St. John&#39;s Church in 1868. Its first minister was John James McCook, a Trinity graduate. McCook served as the parish minister for 61 years, and was probably involved in the design and construction plans for the church. The church is one of a small number of works in Connecticut by Potter, who was a protégé of Richard Upjohn, and would attend services here.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 92 Main Street in the Warehouse Point section of East Windsor, Connecticut. Built in 1804, its interior was extensively restyled in the second half of the 19th century to resemble a Gothic English country church. The building, still in active use by the original congregation, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
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<p>St. Johns is located in the center of the Warehouse Point village, just south of the junction of Main and Bridge Streets. It is a tall single-story wood-frame structure, with a projecting entry section, and a two-stage square tower housing a clock and bell. The main blocks corners are pilastered, as are those of the projection, and there are full-height pilasters flanking the main entrance, above which is a stained-glass Palladian window.</p><br>
<p>The interior is a distinct contrast to the building&#39;s exterior. As originally built, it had a fairly traditional 18th-century meetinghouse plan, with a flat ceiling, galleries on the sides, and a Palladian window behind the pulpit. In 1855, the congregation retained the New Haven firm of Henry Austin to redesign it in the Gothic style. The side galleries were removed and the ceiling was transformed into a barrel vault, with a new chancel at the rear.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by Samuel Belcher and built in 1809, and originally stood on the village green. It served as a union church serving both Methodists and Episcopalians until 1832, when the Methodists built their own church. It was moved to its present location in 1844.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Parochial School is a historic former parochial school on Beaver Street south of Broad Street in New Britain, Connecticut. Built in 1904, it was the first brick school building in the city, and a fine example of Classical Revival architecture. It served as a school until 1972, and was converted into elderly housing in the 1990s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
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<p>The former St. Marys Parochial School is located on the north side of New Britains downtown area, behind St. Mary&#39;s Church on the east side of Beaver Street. It is a three-story brick structure on a brownstone foundation, with a hip roof and a slightly projecting gabled entry section. The main entrance stands under a large round-arch recess, which is flanked by narrow sash windows with transom. A brownstone beltcourse separates the floors, and there are a pair of sash windows above the entrance arch, with flanking narrow sash windows; these windows are all topped by transoms with diamond grillwork.</p><br>
<p>St. Marys parish was established in 1850 to serve the citys growing Irish immigrant population. Its first parochial school was established in 1862, in a frame building at High and Myrtle Streets. This building was constructed in 1904 as a replacement for that one, and was the citys first brick school building. It continued to serve New Britains increasingly diverse Catholic population as its only parochial school until 1938, when a second school was built by St. Ann&#39;s. This school was closed in 1972, and used by the parish for other purposes until 1974, when it was permanently shuttered.</p><br>
<p>The Shade Swamp Shelter was a historic rustic shelter on the north side of USA Route 6, just east of New Britain Avenue in Farmington, Connecticut. Built in 1934 by a crew of the Civilian Conservation Corps , it was one of the states finest examples of the CCCs Rustic architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Shade Swamp Shelter was located in southwestern Farmington, a largely rural-suburban area. It stood at the southern end of the Shade Swamp Wildlife Management area, a 174 acre state-owned area bounded on the south by US 6, and the west by New Britain Avenue, with the Pequabuck River draining most of its swampland near its eastern edge. It stood adjacent to a small gravel parking area, which serves as a trailhead for a Blue-Blazed Trail into the area. It was a modest open post-and-beam log structure, with lattice framing at the corners and diagonal support braces. The interior floor was flagstone, with a rustic bench built around the perimeter. The roof was supported by log rafters and finished in wooden shingles; in a distinctive flourish, the interior ceiling was finished in white birch logs arranged in a chevron pattern.</p><br>
<p>The state began acquiring portions of Shade Swamp as a management area beginning in 1926. The shelter was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, as part of a trail-building program into the underutilized area.</p><br>
<p>The structure is no longer standing, having collapsed sometime between 2021 and early 2022, but remnants of the stone floor exist at its site.</p><br>
<p>The South Congregational - First Baptist Church or "South Church" is a historic church at 90 Main Street in New Britain, Connecticut. It is a large brownstone Gothic Revival structure, located at a central intersection in the city&#39;s heart. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The congregation was established in 1842, and was merged with First Baptist Church of New Britain in 1974.</p><br>
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<p>South Church occupies a prominent position in downtown New Britain, occupying a triangular parcel bounded on the west by Arch Street and Main Street on the east. It is a long rectangular structure, built out of brownstone, with a tower at the northwest corner and the parish house attached at the southeast corner. It is covered by a steep gabled roof, with a band of clerestory windows between the central main roof and that over the side aisles. The walls have Gothic buttressing, and windows are generally lancet-arched in the Gothic style. The tower has three stages and is 170 ft in height, with a belfry that has Gothic arched louvers, and clockfaces set in gable dormers at the base of the steeple. The attached parish house, built four years after the church, also exhibits Gothic features. This church was built in 1865 to a design by Boston architect George F. Meacham, who was already known for his institutional designs. The parish house was added in 1889, also designed by Meacham.</p><br>
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<p>The South Church congregation was founded in 1842 and grew rapidly as the citys industrial base expanded. The church was a mainstay and welcoming influence to the citys immigrant communities, providing outreach services to a variety of ethnicities.</p><br>
<p>"On the 5th July, 1842, one hundred and nineteen of the members of the church withdrew, and were organized by the South Consociation of Hartford county as the South Congregational Church in New Britain. Many disinterested persons thought and said at the time that this division would be disastrous to both societies, but from the active business habits of the people, the result has proved quite otherwise. The population has increased so rapidly that very respectable congregations have been secured in both parishes, notwithstanding the rapid growth of other denominations in the mean time. The yearly contributions to general benevolence may have been somewhat lessened, from the double expense of maintaining two societies in place of one, yet even this does not necessarily follow, for (strange as it may seem,) the ability of a community to give is in the proportion they are in the habit of giving. Over-grown churches, like over-stocked bee-hives, with many drones, need sometimes to swarm, for a full development of their working power. Some may say, why not pass these scenes in silence? Our reply is, we are writing partly for future generations, and should be recreant in duty to them to have said less; and lest we injure the feelings of some one living person, or do injustice to the dead, we refrain from saying more."</p><br>
<p>Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic former church building at 69 Main Street in New Britain, Connecticut. Built in 1891 to a design by Amos P. Cutting, it is a distinctive local example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. Now a performing arts venue known as Trinity-on-Main, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
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<p>The former Trinity Church is located in downtown New Britain, at the southeast corner of Main and Chestnut Streets. It is a large stone structure, built of granite and slate, on an Akron Plan design, with Richardsonian Romanesque style. It is particularly distinguished for its polychrome uses of both granite and slate to create distinctive effects. The facade facing Main Street presents a rounded apse on the left, and a square tower on the right, with corner turrets and a pyramidal roof.</p><br>
<p>The first Methodist congregation in New Britain was organized in 1816, but did not acquire a permanent home until 1828, apparently due to local hostility. The first sanctuary was replaced due to rising membership in 1855, and by the 1880s the replacement was again judged too small. The present church was completed in 1891, and was a major work late in the career of the notable architect Amos P. Cutting. Membership peaked in the early 1950s, suffering thereafter due in part to the city&#39;s urban renewal efforts, which destroyed surrounding residential areas. Unable to maintain the large building, the congregation decided to demolish it in 2000. It was rescued from that fate by local preservationists, and has been converted into a performing arts space.</p><br>
<p>The Allyn Steele House is a historic house at 114 North Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1775, it is one of West Hartford&#39;s few surviving 18th-century buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
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<p>The Allyn Steele House is located north of the center of West Hartford, on the east side of North Main Street, north of its junction with Fern Street. It is set on a lot fringed at the front by a low brownstone retaining wall. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, large central chimney and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, symmetrical in appearance, with the main entrance at the center. The entry is flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature. A two-story polygonal window bay, probably a 19th-century addition, projects from the right side. The interior retains a number of period features, including the winding staircase at the front, and raised paneling in the front parlor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1775 by Allyn Steele, the son of one of West Hartford&#39;s early proprietors. It was probably built on the site of an earlier building. It is one of the few surviving 18th-century houses in the town. It was sold out of the Steele family in 1814, and remained the centerpiece of a farm until about 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Eastman Dental Dispensary was constructed between 1915 and 1917 in the Italian Renaissance architectural style by architects Gordon, Madden, and Kaelber. It was built as a free dental dispensary to serve the community of Rochester, New York, later expanding into throat and nose diseases. It fell into a state of disrepair after sitting vacant for close to four decades. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>In October 1915, George Eastman provided the funds to build a free dispensary in Rochester, New York, that provided oral health benefits to the entire community. This dispensary would serve as the central location for dental services in the Rochester community, supplementing many other smaller offsite locations that had been constructed by other area philanthropists such as Henry Lomb and William Bausch. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
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<p>In 2013, Home Leasing LLC, a for-profit developer of affordable housing based in Rochester, New York, announced plans to redevelop the Eastman Dental Dispensary into 57 rental apartments. On April 16, 2014, New York State Homes & Community Renewal (HCR) announced awards of $2,200,000 in Housing Trust Fund (HTF) program funds, $946,000 in federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) and $449,356 in New York State Low-Income Housing Credits (SLIHC) to the project.</p><br>
<p>On September 26, 2018, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held at the former dispensary to celebrate the opening of the new senior apartment community, named Eastman Gardens in honor of the building&#39;s original founder, George Eastman. The total cost of renovations and restorations totaled $20.7 million.</p><br>
