Box 2
Contains 36 Results:
Knife Shop Road - Northfield Cemetery
Views of the Northfield Cemetery and monuments on Knife Shop Road.
Brush Hill Road #16
Myron Osborne house built in 1822. Photograph of a watercolor drawing by Amy Cross on September 28, 1887 to Mr. Osborne on his 91st birthday
Camp Dutton Road #21
Bigelow house built about 1850. Photograph by N.D. Benedict in 1892. On back of photograph "Birthplace of G.E. Hodson, 1853." Associated with the manufacturing industries, including Bigelow Mill, on the Bantam River to the north of the house.
Chestnut Hill Road site - Medicine Rock
Photograph taken by Mrs. George Vondermuhll of "Medicine Rock", a quartz boulder on the Martin Wright Farm, Chestnut Hill, sold and broken up for silica. Also a printed copy of the same rock taken in 1908 by J.S. Wetmore.
Clark Road
Views of a farm on Clark Road and a ca. 1950 cow barn that was torn down in 1972.
Collins Road #9
Built about 1730, this house is associated with Isaac Phelps and often called the Richards house. It is located near the intersection of Fern Ave. and East Litchfield Road. Front view of the house and a photograph with detail of the front door.
Duck Pond Road #55
Originally located in Branford, Conn. this house was built in 1790 by Capt. Samuel Beach. In 1957 it was moved from East Main Street in Branford for S. Dillon Ripley. The architect was Eric Gugler. Color photograph of an interior room by W.H. Wilcoxson taken July 7, 1962.
East Chestnut Hill Road #125
Built by Lt. Thomas Catlin about 1760. Known as Middle Ridge Farm, later owners inclube Webster, William Warren, John Beer, Malcoln & Carol Bramley. Photographs of the exterior and interior, particularly the paintings on the plaster walls.
East Litchfield Road South site, 1898
Dwight C. Kilbourn house known as Ferncliff. The house, now gone, stood on the south side of East Litchfield Road South. Photograph taken in July 1898.
Brush Hill Road site of #91
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ripley house, also known as Northwood Farms; Kilravock Inn; Carter's Inn. Burned down in 1976. Included are 2 copies of photographs from the Smithsonian Institution - an exterior view and a floor plan. Also a large color postcard of Carter's Inn in the winter.