Historic Barns of Connecticut

Designations

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Historic Significance

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Field Notes

Date of house: 1773, barn (mill) 1823. Barn difficult to see from public road. According to the owner in 2021, the barn actually held a grist mill and the saw mill was 100 feet down the river. The grist mill stone is still on the property and the breached earthen dam is still visible. “The barn for this house once held a sawmill powered by Pond Brook whose source is Taunton Pond. Later in the 19th century it was a hat shop, then a comb shop. In the late 1800s nearby Mt. Pleasant Road was known as ‘Slut's Hill,' a name deriving from the notorious presence in the region of houses of ill repute in the region east of Taunton Pond.” - Mitchell & Goodrich, p. 110. 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. 110, 122-3 pre-1826 House Inventory. Newtown Assessor’s Records.

Use (Historic)

• workspace

Use (Present)

• unknown

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Exterior Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Demolished

No

Location Integrity

Unknown

Related features

• Stone Walls

Environment features

• Residential
• Rural
• Woodland

Relationship to surroundings

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Building Typology

• Mill
• New England

Materials

• Vertical Siding

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Structural System

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Roof materials

• Asphalt Shingle

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Roof type

• Gable

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Approximate Dimensions

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Date Compiled

05/07/2008

Compiled By

Charlotte R. Hitchcock

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. 110, 122-3 pre-1826 House Inventory.