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Title	Southbury historic building 020
Town	Southbury
Subject - LCSH	Dwellings; Southbury (Conn.)
Keywords	Historic home; Old houses
Date [built] (Source)	1789 (owner)
Orig Owner	Fabrique (a builder)
Present Owner [1935-37]	Miss Katherine Johnson
Location	West side of Main Street.
Description [Material]	Wood
Chimney Type/No.of	Brick / 2; small, modern
Height	Two stories and half
Ell	Several ells to west; cornerboards have sunken panels; wide weatherboards on west. Small, later ell to south.
Fenestration	12/12 early 19th century sash; new sash below.
Overhang	Double; slight
Foundation	Stone
Condition - Physical	Good
Exterior	The feature of this house is the projecting pediment porch about 1 ft. beyond the house, supported by two free-standing fluted Doric columns, without bases and with plain caps. Four fluted pilasters above, with three windows. The center one is rounded. Sunken panels either side of the door are intact. Modern sash and 18th century mouldings. Two wells.
Doorway	Double Dutch door.
Interior	Central hall - some paneling of 18the century around the four or five fireplaces. Stair enclosed. Miss Hinman says most of the interior has been torn out.
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 Southbury historic building 020
Creator	W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut
Date - Created	1935-1942
Date - Digital	20120329
Type	image
Format	Image/jpeg
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_sotb020.jpg
Height	811