Find results with:

Add another field

Search by date

to

Searching collections:

WPA Architectural Survey

Add or remove collections

Home Guilford historic building 111

Reference URL

Share

To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this object, paste this HTML in website

Guilford historic building 111

View Description

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

Print

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Back to top

Powered by CONTENTdm®

Title	Guilford historic building 111
Town	Guilford
Subject - LCSH	Dwellings; Guilford (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)	1690-1700 (AEB); c. 1720 (owner) (from records); 1729 or earlier (C. D.)
Orig Owner	Ebenezer Scranton
Present Owner [1935-37]	George A. Goss
Location	End of private road running northwest from Clapboard Hill Road about 3 miles north of Route 1; faces south.
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Saltbox / added leanto
Chimney Type/No.of	Stone / central / mostly behind ridge / 1
Height	Two stories and half
Ell	New 1 1/2 story gambrel roof ell with attached garage added to north.
Fenestration	9 window front; 9/6 sash; ends paired.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Stone
Condition - Physical	Excellent
Authenticity	Carefully restored after having been moved to present location from North Guilford.
Exterior	Originally stood at southern end of Lake Quonnipaug in North Guilford. It was carefully taken apart and set up in its present location about five years ago. One original window is left in the southeast room on the front and from this the other windows were copied. The walls are clapboarded, painted red with white trim. Considerable new timber was of necessity used in the roof, but a number of original rafters have been retained. Evidence that the house is an "added leanto" rather than a "saltbox" is found in the traces of old clapboarding on the planking of the original rear wall.
Doorway	The entrance has a new six-paneled door and a five-light transom.
Interior	Exceptionally fine. Southeast room - has a cased summer beam. Very large stone fireplace with fine bolection moulding. Fireplace wall entirely paneled. The old paint has been removed leaving the old pine a soft mellow color. Corner posts and girts are cased; posts are flared. Southwest room - (now dining room) has a fireplace smaller than that in the southeast room. Fireplace wall fully covered with raised panels; fluted pilasters each side of fireplace. Several coats of paint were removed, exposing original coating of red. Cornice in an angle between girts and ceiling. Kitchen has stone fireplace with stone lintel. Fine cupboards with arched doors. Southwest room (second story) - has fireplace wall fully covered with raised panels. Some old red paint has been exposed as in the dining room. Bolection moulding around the fireplace is painted black. Cased summer beam and girts. Southeast room (second story) - is paneled with featheredge boards. Originally had several simple pine cupboards some of which were reset - others set up in the attic. Ceilings about 7 1/2'. The house contains a fine collection of early American furniture.
History	The earliest reference to this house is in the will of Ebenezer Scranton who died in 1729 or 1720. He was a very old man at the time of his death, and assuming he had owned the house thirty years, it would place the date it was built c.1690. The wealth of paneling seems, however, to be of a later date, and this fine interior finish may quite possibly have been added from time to time over a period of many years.
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	2010 May 7
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	data
Format	jpeg
Language	eng
Source - Original	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	nophoto53.jpg