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Title	New Britain historic building 021
Town	New Britain
Subject - LCSH	Dwellings; Taverns (Inns); New Britain (Conn.)
Keywords	Historic homes; Old houses; Tavern; Stanley Tavern
Date [built] (Source)	c. 1750 (Tercentenary); part only c. 1750 (Tercentenary); rest c. 1810 (?) (EDK)
Orig Owner	Noah Stanley; known as Stanley Tavern
Present Owner [1935-37]	Hubert S. Blake
Location	1928 Stanley Street, west side, facing east
Description [Material]	Wood / formerly a tavern; now a dwelling
Roof	Peak
Chimney Type/No.of	Central / small, behind ridge
Height	Two stories and half
Ell	Large later addition on rear.
Fenestration	9 window front; 2/2 sash; modern; fan, with wooden muntins, in gable.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Cutstone
Condition - Physical	Good
Exterior	Cornice - dentil course and decorated rope moulding. Clapboarded walls.
Doorway	Simple, with modern porch.
Interior	Later stair on right of central hall. Old paneling removed.
History	Thomas and Esther Stanley built a house as early as 1720, now gone. This was built by Noah, his son, c. 1750. Descended to his grandson Noah. Modernized, but still contains the old.
Tell Us More	Tell us more about the building, its history, its address, etc. mailto:diginfo@cslib.org Put the Title in the email Subject line, for example New Britain historic building 021
Creator	W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut
Date - Created	1935-1942
Date - Digital	20110928
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_nebr021.jpg
Height	1207