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Title	East Haddam historic building 014_a
Town	East Haddam
Subject - LCSH	East Haddam (Conn.); Dwellings
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)	1794 (C. D.); 1794 (Judge Parker)
Orig Owner	Epaphroditus Champios
Present Owner [1935-37]	? Mr. & Mrs. Ingersoll (New Haven)
Location	East side of road,.8 mile north of East Haddam bridge.
[Notes]	[Another View]
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Hip
Chimney Type/No.of	Stone/ in cellar / brick / 2
Fenestration	9 window front, paired, 6/6 sash. Ornamental cornices on windows, elaborately moulded with dentils and half round, on ground floor.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Cut Portland stone with lime mortar.
Condition - Physical	Excellent
Exterior	The house is set on a knoll overlooking the river, but facing east on a dirt road which forks up the hill to Creek Row. It was designed by Wm. Spratt, the British army officer who had just finished a house for Cha,pion's [sic] cousin, Julius Deming, in Litchfield. In this house he abandons his characteristic facade of a projecting pediment, and still adapting the square, hip roofed type of house, uses a closed pediment portico reminiscent of that on the house of Cha,pion's [sic] father, Gen. Henry Cha,pion [sic] of Westchester (which may possibly have been designed by Spratt, too - 1790). The narrow country road on which the house faces would not justify a pretentious front. The real front - though not architecturally - is the piazzas around the ell, facing the river and the gardens. These have been broadened, in this generation, in the direction of the river. Subsidiary fronts face the north - with a service entrance stately enough for the main entrance of mort houses; and the much admired garden front to the south. This has a closed pediment porch in a five window front, on a narrow terrace overlooking the three garden levels below. The canopy is supported on fluted Ionic columns, and has full entablature and dentils. The window heads are also treated with full detail, and the cornice has a small dentil course, medallions, and ballustrade. An ell on the northwest corner extends to the rear, allowing a half enclosed porch at the southwest side of the house. This was extended by a narrow porch, now widened around the back, affording views up and down the river, through the tops of the higher trees. A double privy, down a hedged walk, on a lower terrace, carries the full architectural detail of the house.
Doorway	Flush paneled central door; water gilt knocker of cast iron in an Adam design of a Medusa head.
Interior	The central hall runs two thirds through the house, without a stair. This rises, enclosed, from the rear of the southwest room, toward the front. The four famin [sic] rooms are all paneled, and spend upon the lavish development of the fireplace and mantels the decorative energy which most earlier houses had concentrated on the stair. It is noteworthy that not a sign of sunk paneling exists in the house. The two front rooms are identical, with ceilings almost 9' high.
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	2005 Jan. 12
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	image
Format	jpg
Language	eng
Source - Original	Photograph, b&w, 4 x 6 in.; 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_eahd014_a.jpg
Height	764

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