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Title	Eastford historic building 002_a
Town	Eastford
Subject - LCSH	Eastford (Conn.); Dwellings
Keywords	Historic homes; Old houses
About the survey data	The text in the following fields, up to the Tell Us More field, is transcribed from a survey form that accompanies the photograph.
Date [built] (Source)	1800 (owner) (TOCS); 1813 (Heer.); (incorporates Congregational Church of 1778)
Orig Owner	Benjamin Bosworth
Present Owner [1935-37]	E. G. Trowbridge
Location	3/10 mile from Eastford Village. West side of dirt road running west - then south.
[Notes]	[Another view]
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Hip
Chimney Type/No.of	Brick / end / 2 / 3rd chimney from hip roof along side top addition - replacing old opening into main chimney
Height	Two stories and half
Ell	1 1/2 story peak roof addition on top of hip roof.
Fenestration	6/6 x 5 sash; 10 window front including Palladian. 6/6; 12/12; 8/8 on first floor of top addition; 2-4 4 peak windows.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Stone - except at north end which is brick.
Condition - Physical	Excellent
Exterior	The walls are clapboarded, and have plain narrow cornerboards. The cornice projects twelve inches all around hip roof and eight inches at the eaves of the peak roof and is narrow and moulded. Hip cornice has eight inches vertical fluting all around. It is in a rural setting facing east, one hundred feet from the road and fifteen feet above. A retaining wall is around front of house. Maples and evergreens are at the front, fruit trees at side, while bushes, flowers, fields and outbuildings are to the north and rear. At the rear of the house the ground rises sharply. A church is located near the top of the hill.
Doorway	Central doorway with raised panel door and narrow beaded frame, sided with flat pilasters. Eight inch cornice along top, beneath which is eight inch vertical fluting. Six over six sidelights with narrow frame. East side door is identical but without sidelights.
Interior	Hall - the center hall is twelve feet wide and nineteen feet long and eight feet, six inches high, ranged with good woodwork. Doors to the left and right, with deeply fluted pilasters having heavily moulded bases and plain pedestals, while capitals resolve into four inch moulded cornices depending on moulded modillion brackets; similar cornice over the doors, topped with five pane transoms; under cornices are rows of reeding, two inches deep. Similar cornices and pilasters and brackets are around entire brick fireplace with flat frieze twenty-five inches wide; cabinets above. Above the pilasters are three small reeded carvings around entire wall near ceiling, topped with moulded modillions. Doors are raised panel; heavily moulded chair rail all around. S.E. Room - carving in southeast or front right room is extraordinarily rich and individual. Sunken panel wainscoting topped with alternating sunken semicircles. Around walls at ceiling is a row of moulding and carved woodwork nine inches deep, with rope moulding, honeycomb carving, wide, minature fluted pilasters and small contiguous triangle under these. South on fireplace wall, richly laden sunken panels edged with rope mouldings and two pilasters above mantel, with zigzag row of reeded carving; mantel cornice has row of dentils, rope moulding; pilasters supporting it have rope moulding, sunken panels with rope moulding. Raised panel doors at either side of the fireplace, framed with reeded row which is open at one end at the left into closet, on right oto the entry. Inside window frames done in rope moulding and sunken course of diamonds. S.W. Room -southwest room is simpler, having moulded window frames, simpler moulded mantel, and thin cornice above. Spaced groups of flutings along chair rail. Above mantel at sides are flush boarding and raised panels. There is a fourteen inch flat frame around the door to the hall, edged with moulding. Front outside door is forty-three inches wide, double thickness and raised panel outside with sunken inside. Side door, batten inside, is raised outside and thirty-nine inches strap hinges. N.E. Room - in the northeast room at the rear right is flush wainscoting. Molded door frame; small fireplace and simple low mantle. Kitchen - the kitchen at the rear left or northwest has fireplace five feet six inches long, which is very shallow. The entry to the stairs at the rear of front hall is divided at the bottom, four steps to landing from hall and four steps opposite from rear kitchen; both flights end at landing, while steep enclosed steps ascend to the west or left. Between and behind kitchen and dining room are several little rooms and closets. There is one step to the left and one to right of the top landing. A very wide central hall upstairs is lighted by a Palladian window. The upstairs rooms are square and the fireplaces are very small. Originally, there were thirteen fireplaces in the house; now there are only eleven. The steep boxed stairs lead to "pent house" formerly a lodge hall, with plaster walls and ceiling nine feet by eight feet high. Six windows have eight over eight sash. The beams in the attic beside main room show how the long flue once joined main chimney. A small attic is above the lodge hall which has tiny shallow fireplaces, opening twenty-two inches high, twenty inches long, and six inches deep. There is a boxed bench along one wall of the room. Faulty construction is shown in that the second floor plan is not suited to the first floor plan. The partitions extend over unsupported areas of the floor. The timbering is laid with broad sides horizontal rather than vertical.
Tell Us More	Tell us more about the building, its history, its address, etc. mailto: CSL.diginfo@ct.gov Put the Title in the email Subject line.
Creator	W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut
Date - Created	1935-1942
Date - Digital	2006 Oct. 31
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	image
Format	jpeg
Language	eng
Source - Original	Photograph, b&w, 4 x 6 in.; Pre-printed form, b&w, 11 x 8.5 in. with typescript
Source - Location	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033:28, WPA Records, Architectural Survey
Relation	http://www.cslib.org/OldHouse.htm
Publisher	Connecticut State Library
Rights	Digital Image © Connecticut State Library. All rights reserved. Images may be used for personal research or non-profit educational uses without prior permission. For permission to publish or exhibit, see Reproduction and Publication of State Library Colle
File Name	wpa_archsurvey_eafo002_a.jpg
Height	775