Historic Barns of Connecticut

Designations

• Local Historic District
• National Register
• State Register

Historic Significance

n/a

Field Notes

House construction: 1820 Residence of prominent family after whom the public library, a chool, etc. are named; major landowners and public benefactors. Sources: "Touring Newtown’s Past: the Settlement and Architecture of an Old Connecticut Town;" Mary Mitchell and Albert Goodrich, Newtown Historical Society, Newtown, Connecticut, 1996, p. 23, 122-3 pre-1826 House Inventory. Newtown Assessor’s Records. Located in the Newtown Borough Historic District No. 96001458. Excerpt from Clouette Section 7: A number of the residential properties have outbuildings that are counted as contributing resources. About two dozen sizeable barns dating from the middle to late 19th century can be found behind the row of houses facing on Main Street; most have vertical-board exteriors and some sort of cupola (Photograph 11).

Use (Historic)

• carriage barn

Use (Present)

• re-use

Exterior Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Demolished

n/a

Location Integrity

Unknown

Related features

• Cupola

Environment features

• Residential
• Woodland

Relationship to surroundings

n/a

Building Typology

• Carriage House
• Connected

Materials

• Wood Shingle

Structural System

n/a

Roof materials

• Asphalt Shingle

Roof type

• Gable

Approximate Dimensions

n/a

Date Compiled

03/18/2008

Compiled By

Charlotte Hitchcock

Sources

Newtown Assessor’s Records.

Clouette, Bruce, Tinh, Hoang, Newtown Borough National Register Historic District Nomination No. 96001458, National Park Service, 1996.

Mitchell, Mary,  and Goodrich, Albert,  “Touring Newtown’s Past: the Settlement and Architecture of an Old Connecticut Town;”  Newtown Historical Society, Newtown, Connecticut, 1996, p. 23, 122-3 pre-1826 House Inventory.

Local Historic District - Borough of Newtown Historic District, 1996 & 2008:
http://www.historicdistrictsct.org/maps/HistPropList_3.htm - accessed 7/13/2012.