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Title	Farmington historic building 012
Town	Farmington
Subject - LCSH	Dwellings; Farmington (Conn.)
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)	1784 (marker)
Orig Owner	Major General Solomon Cowles
Present Owner [1935-37]	Mrs. Wilmarth S. Lewis
Location	West side of Main Street at southwest corner of Meadow Road.
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Hip
Chimney Type/No.of	Brick / central / 2
Height	Two stories and half
Fenestration	9 window front. New sash. 6/6 sash.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Stone
Condition - Physical	Good
Authenticity	Original, with some additions
Exterior	It is a square house with a high hip roof, surrounded by a neat lawn and an attractive fence with delicately turned pickets. The main cornice has brackets.
Doorway	The entrance trim is severe and of good design. A well designed porch with slender columns and Ionic caps support a copper roof. This addition, which is on the south side, appears to have been added later.
Interior	Hall - central with straight stair on right. Small round rail, with thin oblong-shaped balusters. Applied triangular ornament under treads. Hall has wainscot of sunk paneling, and five extremely handsome doorways, all with "ears" an ornament of interwoven circles, and dentil courses. The second door on the south side, however, is large, has no course of circles, and leads nowhere. In fact, the door, which is of flush paneling, is not a door, but nailed in place. If it opened, it would be upon the wall between two rooms. It is opposite the fireplace in the drawing room on the north side, but no one thinks that the wall between the hall and drawing room has not always been there, even though the stair and the fireplace may seem later. Its existence has never been explained. It seems purely ornamental, but is not centered between the other two doors, from which it differs. Drawing room once two rooms, now one, extends along the north side. A fireplace juts out on the north wall with a finely carved Adam mantel, on tapering pilasters. Directly opposite is a plain post - absolutely plain, and obviously later. The outer wall space is covered with shelves of books and windows. Parlor (southeast) has same sunk panel wainscot as hall, and very elaborate fireplace wall end and doorways (described in hall). Doors have six panels. Interlaced rope mouldings, modillions and brackets.
History	Carving said to have been done by Hessian prisoners. William Spratt may have been the architect.
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	2009 Dec. 3
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	image
Format	jpeg
Language	eng
Source - Original	Photograph, b&w, 4 x 6 in.; Pre-printed form, b&w, 8.5 x 11 in. with typescript
Source - Location	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033:28, WPA Records, Architectural Survey
Relation	Research Guide to Old House Resources at the Connecticut State Library: 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 Collections, http://www.cslib.org/repropub.htm
File Name	wpa_archsurvey_farm012.jpg
Height	1234