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Title	New Milford historic building 015
Town	New Milford
Subject - LCSH	Dwellings; New Milford (Conn.)
Keywords	Historic homes; Old houses
Date [built] (Source)	c. 1740 (owner); character indicates c. 1812 (AEB)
Orig Owner	Once in Noble Family, early settlers of Brookfield
Present Owner [1935-37]	Foster; E. F. Carter
Location	Route 7, west side facing east; just north of Brookfield line.
Description [Material]	Brick
Roof	Peak
Chimney Type/No.of	Stone / in basement / brick / end / 4, 1 end chimney in wing
Height	Two stories and half
Ell	1 1/2 story wing to south
Fenestration	9 window front with a fine Palladian window in center; mostly 6/6 sash; spider web windows in gable ends.
Foundation	Stone
Condition - Physical	Good
Authenticity	Original
Exterior	Simple and finely proportioned. Walls - hand wrought brick slightly larger than commonly found in early brick houses. Cornice - made up of well designed mouldings, and enriched with small dentils in groups of three, alternating with small diamond shaped ornaments. Windows - the Palladian window has two horizontal limestone litnels, and a stone arch over the central unit. The stone trim of this window is perhaps a trifle heavy in appearance. A small new dormer has been added to the east slope of the roof of the wing. Setting - about 50' back and slightly above the road. Fine large maples in front. Splendid view to the east.
Doorway	Handsome well designed porch with a leanto roof supported by four Doric columns that have very pronounced entasis. The cornice carries out a similar pattern to that on the main house, but on a smaller scale. Three light sidelights are separated from the door opening by narrow pilasters and there are also two narrow pilasters on the wall directly back of the outer porch columns. Elliptical arch transom with leaded glass. Leaded glass also in sidelights. The porch cornice breaks slightly over the top of each column. Granite floor and steps (floor of one large slab).
Interior	Four square rooms, one at each corner, open from a wide central hall that extends from front to rear. These rooms have extremely simple wood finish. Doors and windows are trimmed with delicate mouldings and mitered casings. Most doors are five sunken paneled with complex mouldings. Each room has a brick fireplace with rather simple pilastered mantels having moulded cornices and shelves. The mantels are definitely early 19th century in character. Ceilings are over 8'. Old wide board flooring throughout. The roof is framed with heavy hewn oak purlins and rafters held together with oak pins. Stairway - is wide and spacious, ascending in one long run to a platform and a short run from platform to the second story hall that also extends from front to rear. The central Palladian window is at the east end and there is a stairway window at the west and over the platform. The stairs are open stringer with plain stringer face without scallops; simply moulded rail that is ramped at the platform and at the second floor landing; handsome large spiral turn at the bottom; small and square balusters. In the first story the cellar stairs descend under the main stairs, and the portion of the hall under the platform is separated from the main hall by an open elliptical arch on pilasters with moulded caps. From this space opens an outside door to the rear. South wing - the kitchen is in this wing in its original location. A wide fireplace has a Dutch oven and a simple wood mantel. Batten and wide plain board doors; one single plank door.
History	This place is said to have been the setting for Edna Ferber's novel "American Beauty" which attributes to it a 17th century origin.
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Creator	W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut
Date - Created	1935-1942
Date - Digital	20111013
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	image
Format	jpeg
Language	eng
Format Extent	4 x 6 in.
Format Medium	black-and-white photographs
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	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
File Name	wpa_archsurvey_nemi015.jpg
Height	1220

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