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Title	Hampton historic building 020_a
Town	Hampton
Subject - LCSH	Church buildings; Hampton (Conn.)
Keywords	Historic buildings; Churches; Congregational
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)	1754 (Heer., records); 1840 (renovated, authenticated, T. S.)
Orig Owner	Congregational Church
Present Owner [1935-37]	Congregational Church
Location	West side, Conn. 97, 100 yds north US 6.
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Peak
Chimney Type/No.of	End / small
Height	Two stories and half
Fenestration	6 over 6 sash, 3-window front on second story; 6 over 6 sash, 6-window sides, both first and second story.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Brick
Condition - Physical	Excellent
Exterior	Walls - the walls are clapboarded at sides, flush boarded on front. Wide flush boarded pilasters at corners and two additional ones on front. Face of pediment covered with flush boards. Cornice - the cornice projects 18 inches at rake, eaves and lower member of pediment. Thirty inch frieze under pediment and eave cornices. Porch - a Greek Revival portico adorns the church, with four heavy, fluted, tapered, Doric pillars; soffit is a row of twenty raised panels. Four full-length stone steps lead to doors. Setting - the church faces east, is set 40 ft. from, and 5 ft. above the road; with a fine lawn in front; a house just to the south, surrounded with high maples; and a little "chapel" really a community hall, 20 ft. away on the north; a garage behind. Steeple - steeple is made up of four tiers and spire. First tier ascends only to ridge pole, is closed with clapboards and has quoins (short and long) at the edges. The second tier commences at the ridge pole, is as high as the first, slightly smaller in width and length (tiers are square), and is clapboarded and quoined. Very slight cornice on first tier, six inch cornice on end tier which is topped with open board railing with high posts. The third tier is the combined height of the lower two, is much shorter and narrower, has shuttered, rectangular openings in the sides, each opening aided with plain, flat, Ionic pilasters (two each side, four altogether on each face of tier.) Pilasters support high plain frieze topped with six inch cornice supported by small modillion brackets. The fourth tier is smaller in all dimensions, has similar pilasters supporting high frieze topped with dentils and four inch cornice; sides of tier (each side of which has four pilasters) is closed with vertical flush boarding. The spire is about the combined height of three lower tiers, is four-sided, covered with narrow, horizontal flush boards and surmounted with wooden ball, and arrow vane at top.
Doorway	Three recessed, raised panel doors, 4-pane transoms, very wide frame, perfectly plain, save for slight cornice projections one-half foot over plain frieze; whole frame protrudes the thickness of planks about one-and-a-half inches.
Interior	The interior is considerably altered with new pews, new pulpit, dais and altar effect. The altar effect is simple arched moulding, with sunken panel keyblock at top, applied to plain backing and supported on slender pilasters; entire arrangement sided with sunken-panel-pilasters supporting high frieze reeded at the bottom and topped with cornice supported by block brackets. Gallery runs around three sides of the church and is raised with solid balustrade with applied turned spincles [sic]. In gallery are old, raised panel pews (blocks paneled both sides). At rear of gallery, three benches are on three tiers, and highest has raised paneling under seat (from seat to floor). Stair railing boxed in on 2nd floor, with raised panels.
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 Jun. 1
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	image
Format	jpg
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	wpa_archsurvey_hamp020_a.jpg
Height	2203