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Box 14

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Contains 24 Results:

South Plains Road site between #601 and #641

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 24
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This house was built in 1756 by Elijah Peck. Included are two photographs from the late 1880s or 1890s by K.T. Sheldon and labeled "Peck Homestead".  It was known as Sucker Brook Farm and later as Minty Farm. Owners included Alexis Doster until 1955; and the Carrs. There are also 7 small black & white photographs that are undated, probably in the 1950s. The house burned down before 1986 as it was not included on the Litchfield Architectural Survey.

Dates: 1840-2000

Potash Road #43

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 1
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Black and white photograph of the Charles Wadhams house.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #21

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 2
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Built in 1904 by Mary Perkins Quincy, this house is known as Ardley. Later owners included John Cook; Whitney & Elizabeth Brooks; Richard Rutter; and the Shienbrots.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #33

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 3
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Built by Shepherd Knapp in 1894, the Knapps named this house "Hic Habitat Felicitas". The architect was S. Edson Gage. Later owned by Kate (Knapp) & George A. Vondermuhll (1911); Valerie Vondermuhl; & Alfred Vondermuhl.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #50

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 4
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Built in 1842 by Daniel Baldwin. Later owners included Stephen Deming (1852,1862); Anna & Charlotte Richards; and Malcolm Foord.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #55

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Built by Reuben Webster in 1786 and by 1849 it was used as the Congregational Parsonage. Rev. George Richards lived here in 1862. After the Congregational Parsonage was built at #153 North Street in 1863, it became a private residence. Some of the later owners included Anna W. Dana; Archibald McMartin; William Maxwell; Wagner Thielens; Lynne T. Field; and Ray and Carol Gibney.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #64

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 6
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Probably built in 1832 or 1833 and moved from South Street by Daniel Baldwin in 1840. The owner in 1862 was Mary Pierce. It was purchased in 1884 by George C. Richards, Jr. and remained in the Richards family until 1946 when it was sold to Laura and Thomas Bryant. The house has been renovated and altered from the 1885 photograph of Prospect Street. Also a smaller black & white photograph with the renovations.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #109

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 7
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Built about 1886 by W.J. Fitzgerald, with Victorian turret & dormers designed by McKin, Mead & White and added in 1890. In 1928 it was renovated to colonial by Charles Hickox. Later owners included Jay Younglin and Peter Tillou. Photographs include the FItzgerald house as designed by architect A. Page Brown; and the later Hickox house.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #147

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 8
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A small black & white photograph taken of the back of the house. It was owned in 1879 by Josiah WIlliams Wheeler and in 1920 by Emily M. Wheeler. Later owners included Loyall & Emily Osborne (1938); Mary Lou & William (Bob) Reid (1959); and Dick Ebersol and Susan St. James. Known at Belaire/Belleaire.

Dates: 1840-2000

Prospect Street #163

 File — Box: 14, Folder: 9
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Emily M. Wheeler purchased this cottage, known as the McCall cottage, in 1897 and renamed it Orchard Cottage. She used it as a summer home for New York CIty shop girls. It was later owned by Marty & Jame Moraghan.

Dates: 1840-2000