Address: 3-5 Austin Drive
Contemporary Building Name: 3-5 Austin Drive
Historic Building Name: Austin Homestead
Present Use: Office
Historic Use: Residence
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Italianate, Queen Anne
Date constructed: 1860 (Assessor)
Description: The house is L-Shaped with the 2-bay gable end of the (east) stem facing the street. The angle of the L is filled with a one-story section. A two-story ell extends to the rear on the south. There is no basement, according to the Assessor's field card, giving rise to the supposition that the house has been moved. Most windows have 6-over-6 replacement sash in flat surrounds. At the first floor of the front elevation, a doorway with plain porch to the left is balanced to the right by a three-sided bay under projecting flat roof. The entablature above the bay windows consists of a frieze with triglyphs, dentil course and sawtooth course. The lintels of the two second-floor windows are embellished by dentil courses under their crown moldings. The gable end above features a wide radial truss in front of a louvered round window opening. Chamfered truss members meet at a central hub from which a drop pendant is suspended. Also behind the truss another sawtooth course takes the place of a conventional gable-end entablature, while the gable's raking eaves carry wide fascias. Gable end is covered with saw-toothed imbricated shingles. Two bays similar to that on the front but two-stories high appear on the west side elevation, toward the front and the back. The back is new construction, replicating the two-story bay of the front.
Significance: 3-5 Austin Road is significant architecturally because of the variety of styles which it displays. The compact mass and rectangular dimensions of the section with gable end toward to street suggest the house was built in the Greek Revival period. The fascias of the raking eaves of the gable are appropriate from a Greek pediment, while the crown moldings and dentil courses of the second-floor windows also fit the style. The shape and projecting flat roofs of the bays are mid-century Italianate features, followed, perhaps after the Civil War, by the truss and imbricated shingles associated with the Queen Anne style.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998
Notes: Moved at an unknown date.

Address: 10 Blackledge Road
Contemporary Building Name: 10 Blackledge Road
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residence
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1845 (Baber), 1862 (Assessor)
Description: The house consists of a two-story pedimented gable end facing the street flanked by a one-story long wing to the south and a one-story small ell to the north. The front of the two-story principal block has four bays, arranged in a 2-2 rhythm, without doorway. Windows are 6-over-6. Corners of the building are defined by paneled pilasters. The deeply recessed pediment features a central vertical 6-over-6 window under wide frieze and molded cornice. In the surrounding tympanum the clapboard pattern is chevron-shaped. Front entrance is though the one-story wing to the south. This 24' x 16' segment therefore may be part of the original house. Like the main block, it has a central brick chimney. A 1923 addition reference by the Assessor's field card may be the extension of he wing or the ell to the north. The property consists of nine acres, probably representing the remaining portion of a farm parcel.
Significance: 10 Blackledge Road is significant architecturally because it is a fine example of the Greek Revival style, will-maintained and in a good state of preservation, with unusual features. The unusual features include the four-bay arrangement of the front elevation, the absence of a front door, and the presence of the vertical highly articulated pediment window. Its surrounding diagonal boarding also is seldom found. The distinctive size, orientation, and entablature of the attic window may be a favored Marlborough treatment. See also 23-25 Blish Road.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 23-25 Blish Road
Contemporary Building Name: 23-25 Blish Road
Historic Building Name: Blish Homestead
Present Use: 2-family residence
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1866 (Assessor)
Description: The two-bay pedimented gable end of the Blish Homestead is toward the street. Windows are 6-over-6, except in the tympanum. Window surrounds are flat, with splayed lintels which, in the second floor, abut and merge with a wide frieze which encircles the house at the roof line. There are plain corner boards rather than pilasters. Entrance is through a 7-foot shed-roofed recessed open porch to the south. The central 6-over-6 window in the pediment is thoroughly articulated with flanking pilasters under wide frieze and small gabled pediment (see also 10 Blackledge Road). The tympanum is covered with flush boarding. A central chimney rises from the ridge. The rood of the 25-foot first section of the one-story ell is lower than the main roof. There is a chimney in the rear wall. A second 16-foot one-story section of the ell has a higher roof line.
Significance: The Blish Homestead is significant architecturally because it is a good example of the Greek Revival style with unusual features. The bold simple massing, gable end to street, frieze, and other detailing are consistent with the style. The presence of only two bays and no doorway in the front of the main block are out of the ordinary as is the pediment's vertical window with fully expressed surround. Both these elements are also found at 10 Blackledge Road. The site is distinguished by its landscape architecture. The unusual long length and massive stone blocks of the front retaining wall dominate the view of the house. The wall, the elevated position of the building behind the wall, and the related scenic view to the west combine to create a desirable setting that may be unique in Marlborough.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 15 Bull Hill Road
Contemporary Building Name: Hillfield Farm
Historic Building Name: A. Skinner House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber)
Description: The house at Hillfield Farm dominates the farm site from its elevated location. In the three-bay facade the doorway to the right (west) is flanked by plain pilasters which support an entablature with a row of five transom lights and a modillion course under the narrow crown molding. The surrounds of the 12-over-12 windows are obscured by the aluminum siding. The fenestration as a group is off center to the east. Building corners are defined by narrow paneled pilasters. The height of the pediment is low for its width, but it is well-recessed and has cornice and raking cornices of cyma moldings. The central window is a vertical 6-over-6, a not-uncommon feature in Marlborough. The original surface of the tympanum is covered over by the siding, which extends to the raking cornices probably also covering the raking friezes. Windows on the west side elevation are placed in a 1-2 rhythm, while a large central brick chimney rises from the roof ridge. A shed roof covers the 10-foot rear addition. Several outbuildings are located to the rear, with a riding-ring paddock on the east side of the house. The premises appear to be a working horse farm although the size of the property is shown by the fieldcard to be only 1.4 acres.
Significance: The house at Hillfield Farm is significant architecturally because it is an example of the Greek Revival style exhibiting several features of the style in a more attenuated interpretation than is commonly found. The pilasters flanking the doorway, the crown molding of the cornice above, the corner pilasters of the house, and the pediment's cornice moldings are all thinner and more refined -- less bold, than is characteristic of the style. Such attenuation is more often found in the Federal style, which preceded the Greek Revival, suggesting that this house may have been built before c. 1840. The presence of aluminum siding gives a good example of the visually detrimental effects of applying such siding. The wall-plane relationship between the window surrounds and the walls is diminished -- there is less reveal; and the original design of the surround is lost. In the pediment the surface of the tympanum is lost, as are the probably raking friezes. The 1869 atlas identifies the house with the name A. Skinner.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 2 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 2 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Post Office
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Post Office
Architectural style: Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1825 (Assessor), 1840 (Baber), c. 1930s (Ransom).
Description: The house at 2 Chapman Road, which was the Marlborough Post Office in the 19th century, has three bays in its front (south) elevation. The doorway, off-center to the west, has flanking fluted pilasters under a five-pane transom and shallow peaked gable. Window to the west is 12-over-12, while the wider space to the east is filled with a tripartite window of 12-over-12 flanked by narrow 6-over-6 sash. At the second floor, from the west, a 12-over-8 window is above the first-floor 12-over-12, another 12-over-8 is above the door, and a tripartite of 12-over-8 flanked by 6-over-4 sash is above the first-floor tripartite window. A brick chimney rises from the ridge line off-center to the east, behind the tripartite windows, and a second, exterior chimney on the west side wall dies into the one-story wing. The stone basement front wall of the west wing is exposed, behind a shed-roofed porch supported by turned post. A single 12-over-12 window is above the porch. The east side elevation of the house has two windows at first and second floors and a tripartite attic window.
Significance: The 1869 atlas designates a building at the location as the Marlborough Post Office. The house is significant historically for this reason. The location presumably was chosen because of its proximity to the satinet mill. It may be that fabric from the post office building is incorporated in the present Colonial Revival house.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 9 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 9 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Union Mill House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: Mid-19th Century (1869 Atlas), 1870 (Assessor)
Description: The narrow front (east) elevation of 9 Chapman Road has a single central window at all three floors. Access to the house is through a small gabled entranceway to the left. A one-story shed-roofed enclosed porch with several windows runs along the entire north side elevation, facing the road. In the second floor, above, two windows are toward the front of the house. A small central corbeled brick chimney rises from the ridge.
Significance: The house is plain, without the characteristic features of any architectural style. Its significance arises from the conjecture that it is one of the cluster of mill houses which shows on the 1869 atlas (see Atlas of Hartford City and County, Hartford: Baker & Tilden, 1869, Plate 2). The satinet mill complex was located on the north side of Chapman Road, but has all disappeared. 9 Chapman Road and its duplicated 7 Chapman Road, are candidates to be two of the mill houses shown by the atlas, which were moved across the street at an unknown date after 1869.
Sources: Atlas of Hartford City and County. Hartford: Baker & Tilden, 1869.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 55 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 55 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1740-1770 (Baber)
Description: The house at 55 Chapman Road is a one-story steeply pitched gable-roofed four-bay Colonial building with massive central stone chimney. Door is in third bay from left, preceded by two 12-over-8 windows and followed by one of the same. Windows in the side elevations include two 12-over-8s at both first and second floors. In addition there are small four-pane eaves windows. The ell has a large central stone chimney, similar to that in the front block.
Significance: The house at 55 Chapman Road is the first of three similar buildings in a well-spaced row along the south side of Chapman Road, which perhaps all closely resembled one another when built (see also 93 Chapman Road and 191 Chapman Road). The combination of four bays in the front elevations and eaves windows in the sides is unusual. These features are consistent with the ascribed construction date of c. 1740, or earlier. The presence of a cluster of three houses of this description is highly unusual and significant.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 93 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 93 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Henry West House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1740-1780 (Baber)
Description: The house at 93 Chapman Road is a one-story three-bay (now), central-chimney Colonial building. There is one 6-over-6 window to the left, close to the door, and one to the right in a larger space, suggesting the possibility that the configuration may have been four-bay originally. Three windows are in place on the east elevation, first floor, with two, close together, at the second. A shed-roofed dormer has been added on the rear roof slop, and a low shed-roofed full-width ell across the back.
Significance: 93 Chapman Road is smaller in ground plan and lower in height than its roughly comparable neighbors at 55 Chapman Road and 141 Chapman Road, and is without the eaves windows. Consequently, even if four-bay originally, which is conjectural, it is not a close duplicate of the other two but is generally similar and of the same period.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 141 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 141 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Henry West, Jr. House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1740-1770 (Baber)
Description: 141 Chapman Road is a four-bay one-story, tall-central-chimney Colonial building with steeply pitched gable roof. The door is in the second bay from the left. Windows are 2-over-2 on the front, 6-over-6 on the sides except for the four-pane eaves windows which are found on the east side only. The attic windows also are four-pane. The ell, built at least in part in 1933, is both one-story and two-story. The foundation material is described by the assessor's field card as concrete, cinder block and by the Baber inventory (1978) form as stone. The difference is important because, if the assessor's description is correct, the house was originally elsewhere and was moved to this location. A possible explanation is that the stone foundation is parged and therefore looks like concrete from the exterior.
Significance: 141 Chapman Road is the last in the row of three similar houses on the south side of Chapman Road. Like 55 Chapman Road, to which it is similar in size, it has eaves windows on the east, and probably originally on the west, as well. The door, however, is in the second bay from the left instead of the third. 55 Chapman Road and 141 Chapman Road are close to being a pair, while 93 Chapman Road is smaller and may not originally have had four bays.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: House has probably been moved from its original to its current location.

Address: 5 Cheney Road
Contemporary Building Name: 5 Cheney Road
Historic Building Name: Captain Moseley Talcott House, J.W. Day Farm
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1773-1800 (Keith)
Description: The front elevation of the house at 5 Cheney Road has five bays spaced in a 2-1-2 rhythm, with central doorway and tall central chimney. The front door is set off by sidelights of four vertical panes under a five-pane transom. Second-floor lintels abut the eaves fascia. The barn features weathered vertical siding. The Keith photograph (1935) does not show the rear wing to the north.
Significance: The Captain Moseley Talcott House is a fine example of a large, tall Colonial house in a good state of preservation. The front retaining wall and iron fence add an element of historic landscape architecture. The fence was fabricated on the premises in 1823 by a blacksmith named William Richmond. The Marlborough library is named after his son William Henry Richmond, who became a coal magnate in Scranton, Pennsylvania. There once was a cider mill at the rear of this property, toward the end of what is now called Old Cider Mill Lane.
Sources: Keith, Elmer D., director. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project, Census of Old or Distinctive Buildings in the State of Connecticut. c. 1935.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: THIS HOUSE BURNED DOWN, AND WAS REBUILT WITH A NEW CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURE, IN 2003.

Address: 73 Cheney Road
Contemporary Building Name: 73 Cheney Road
Historic Building Name: Cheney Rock/Residence
Present Use: Residence
Historic Use: Summer House
Architectural style: Contemporary/Modern
Date constructed: c. 1898 foundation (assessor) / reconstructed 1988
Description: The two-story house is large and modern with gabled roof.
Significance: Although all of the architectural significance is lost, the location retains some local importance as being the summer home of Knight D. Cheney, who was part of the prominent Cheney Family who owned and operated the Cheney Mill in Manchester. The Cheneys summered on Lake Terramugus. Knight D. Cheney purchased the 1 1/2 acre parcel from James Bell in 1884. Frank Cheney, Jr. also purchased the adjoining 100 acres from James Bell in 1893. Knight quit claimed the parcel to Frank in 1903. Frank then sold the property to the Marlborough Club in 1903 although he appears to have kept some adjoining property which was then sold to the Marlborough Club in 1947. The Marlborough Club kept the property through the late 1950s.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: Original building was lost, and a new building was constructed in 1988 upon the original foundation.

Address: 10 Cooley Road
Contemporary Building Name: Buckhill Farms
Historic Building Name: Cooley House, R. Bigelow House, Foote House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial / Georgian
Date constructed: 1780 (CHC)
Description: The Cooley House is a five-bay central-doorway central-chimney Colonial building with an unusually long (58') ell. Windows are 6-over-6 with blinds. In the small front porch square posts support a gabled roof with eaves returns. The paneled front door is flanked by six-pane sidelights. On the west side elevation there are two windows like those on the front at both first and second floors and a larger window in the attic. An unusually tall second chimney rises from the ridge of the ell about one-third of the way back.
Significance: The dimensions of the Cooley House are large both in ground plan and height, as well as in the length of the ell. The classical revival features of the front porch, if original, make the house an early example of the Georgian style of architecture, although the central chimney is Colonial. The ell dates from the 19th century, except for the final section, which was added in 1989. The building is shown on the 1869 atlas as the R. Bigelow House.
Sources: Connecticut Historical Commission Historic American Buildings Survey, 1967.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Description: The Marlborough Tavern, also known as the Colonel Elisha Buell House, is a central chimney Colonial house with a gambrel roof and three front dormers. Situated at the junction of East Hampton Road (Route 66) and South Main Street in Marlborough, the clapboarded tavern faces east and was for many years, prior to the coming of the railroad, a major stopover on the turnpike from Hartford to New London. A late 18th century ell along the north wall of the original tavern is the first of several additions which now link the old inn with its barn, which has been re-sided but retains its original interior construction. The foundations of the structure are of rough fieldstone. In the cellar, the chimney is brick. The two-story facade is heightened by the gambrel roof, the third floor lit by three dormers in the front and a fourth to the rear, in the southwest corner. The attic floor is lit by two windows, north and south; this area once served as a guardroom for prisoners on their way to Old New-gate prison and was damaged by fire in the early part of this [20th] century. The nine window clapboarded face is punctuated by a double leaved door with a simple molded architrave and a single row of five lights across the top. Paired six over six sash [windows] flank the doorway. Above, the shingled dormers (once clapboarded), six over six sashed [windows] , are topped with small hipped roofs. Narrow clapboards are framed at the corners with narrow vertical boarding. The main cornice, a plain narrow molding, comes flush with the corner boards and continues up along the pitch of the roof. To the left, along the south wall, a modern "lean-to" has been added across the first floor; it is one of several modern additions whose construction has somewhat diminished the solid lines of the original tavern. These additions are all of wood construction with clapboard sheathing and are thus at least structurally compatible with the tavern and its eighteenth century ell. A modern white picket fence surmounts the ancient fieldstone wall enclosing the yard which is planted with several old trees. The gambrel roof has recently been shingled with asphalt, but the tavern's clapboards are original. The brick chimney is centered along the ridge, with the width facing the front of the tavern. Two courses are corbelled up to the third directly beneath the top of the chimney. The end walls of the main house both originally contained six large six over six windows and one smaller attic window; the south walls lean-to eradicates the first story windows there, while on the third floor an additional window, centered between the two original sash, has been inserted. The one-story ell dominated the north elevation of the tavern, extending to the rear of the structure for approximately 60 feet, though the oldest section built in the 18th century, occupies only a third of that length. The entrance to the ell, a door just to the rear of the tavern’s northwest corner, is particularly fine, with arched panels, long strap hinges and a wrought iron latch. At the time, two chimneys divided the ell; these chimneys no longer exist though the presence of the easternmost chimney can still be noted in exposed interior beams which were cut subsequent to the ell’s construction to accommodate the chimneys insertion. The joiner’s framing marks can be seen on the hewn and pegged beams, illustrating the colonial craftsman’s methods of construction. The shallow porch and open terrace are modern additions built after the tavern was purchased for operation as a restaurant. Still another addition, c. 1965, built out from the ell along its south wall encloses a large banquet hall. To accommodate this addition, the original stone hatchway of the tavern through which kegs were lowered into the tavern’s cellar, was removed. The room is at present dominated by a massive fireplace in its northeast corner. Connected to the ell is the barn, once located closer to Route 66 but moved, c. 1950 to become part of the restaurant complex. The barn with (recently applied) vertical board sheathing and simple gable roof retains its interior framing and much of its original detail. Thus, the entire Marlborough Tavern complex consists of two main components, the old tavern, and the barn, connected by a series of ells and additions. An abundance of original detail remains within the old tavern structure. The paneled double door enters into an inner porch, situated just forward of the chimney, off of which are the two main chambers, the dining room to the right and taproom to the left, and from which the main stairway leads. It is a present unused, the main entrance to the restaurant now being through the barn. Across the rear, what were once three rooms have been opened up to form one long room the width of the tavern. The central section was once the kitchen for the tavern; the wide hearth with its crane and brick oven remains. The floors in the old tavern are ancient wide boards. In the taproom, the present flooring comes from what was once the guardroom in the attic. Likewise, the bar and its grill, a screen with slats which hinged to the ceiling and could be lowered n the event of a rowdy crowed, is a careful reproduction (using old wood) of the bar which stood in the southwest corner of the taproom. In both of the two main chambers, the taproom and the dining room, the chimney wall is covered with paneling; wall cupboards exist in both panels. Flared posts are visible in the old house although the summer beam is obscured by plastering on the second floor, the tavern’s ball-room has a swinging partition which could be used to divide it into smaller rooms. Despite additions, which confuse but do not obscure its integrity, the Marlborough Tavern, a late colonial country inn, survives today and continues to serve, as it has for many years, the hungry traveler.
Significance: The Marlborough Tavern is a Colonial country inn whose architecture reflects the forthright simplicity of rural life in the 18th century. A central chimney structure, two stories tall with a gambrel roof and three front dormers, the clapboarded tavern stands behind its fieldstone and white picket fence at the junction of East Hampton Road (Route 66) and South Main Street in Marlborough. In the days before the railroad, the Tavern was a major stopping point along the turnpike from Hartford to New London. The town's activities centered at the Marlborough Tavern; early in the 19th century, meetings for the town's incorporation were held there. As a commercial center, too, the Tavern contributed to Marlborough's life. Tow or three horse carriages stopped there daily to change horses. Traders and drovers haggled there. Militia men trained nearby and celebrated the end of the Revolutionary War there, stacking their muskets in the corner of the taproom. Involuntary guests, prisoners, spent the night there, locked up in the guardroom in the Tavern's attic. The innkeeper, Colonel Elisha Buell, was a gunsmith and skilled metalworker who had his shop to the north of the inn. During the 19th century, the Buell family was engaged in Marlborough's trade in firewood: Marlborough timber was shipped from Middle Haddam to New York City to be sold there for firewood. Until 1898, the Buell family continued to keep the inn. Shortly after, the house was purchased by Mary Hall, a Connecticut lawyer, who left it to the Society of Colonial Dames. The Colonial Dames effected the restoration of the taproom, added the picket fence and laid out gardens in the north lawn, running the Tavern as a tearoom. Most recently, the Matsikas family owns and operates the Marlborough Tavern as a restaurant. Neither pretensious nor grand, the Marlborough Tavern is an old New England country inn, homey, as in fact it was Elisha Buell's home, and utilitarian. Three dormers light the third floor, opening up more space for guests there. The attic, in the last available space below the peak of the roof, served as a guardroom for prisoners being transported to Old New-Gate gaol, and the ballroom, an important space for large meetings as well as for balls, could be divided, if necessary, for guests by swinging out the partition. In time, an ell was added to further accomodate the Tavern's many guests and other additions have been made to meet the requirements of its present function as a restaurant. The north elevation retains much of its original appearance, set back on a broad lawn with several old trees framing the north-east corner. A low concrete terrace marks the juncture of the ell and the barn. The addition of a long, one-story banquet hall along the south side has altered this elevation but the approach to the Tavern from East Hampton Road (Route 66) and South Main Street reveals the inn in its traditional setting, on a slight rise, behind its ancient stone wall, set off by a white picket fence. There is little fanciful or elegant detail in the Marlborough Tavern but the sure hand of the carpenter's handwork transcends the Tavern's artlessness and creates a unity of methods and materials. Despite additions which have altered the Marlborough Tavern's original appearance, still the old inn stands out, its clean lines and worn clapboards proclaiming its substance and endurance.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places Nomination, July 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: Part of the restored "mall" burned in 1989. The Marlborough Tavern remains open as a restaurant. Information is taken directly from the National Register Nomination form.

Address: 78 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: 78 East Hampton Road (Route 66)
Historic Building Name: C. Carter House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber), 1887 (Assessor)
Description: The gable-end front elevation of the C. Carter House has the typical Greek Revival-style fenestration of three bays, with door in the left (west) bay. The two windows at the first floor and three at the second are under molded cornices. The eaves of the gable end return slightly, not forming a pediment, but there is a central rectangular window in the gable, as commonly found in a pediment. A central brick chimney stands above the ridge line. The wing to the west appears to be an early-to-mid-20th century addition, with a hipped-roof front porch. The wing extends to form a garage whose doorway is at grade, because the elevation falls off, under three paired horizontal windows. The property consists of eight acres.
Significance: The main block is a good example of the Greek Revival style, smaller in size than many. The absence of a pediment combined with the Assessor's 1887 construction date suggest the the house may be "retarditaire" in date of construction, i.e. built toward the end of the Greek Revival period. The 1869 atlas shows a house at approximately this location. If the entry is correct, the house obviously was built before 1869, and the Assessor's date is not correct. The 1869 atlas identifies the property with the name C. Carter. C. Carter, Jr., lived next door at 86 East Hampton Road.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 86 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: 86 East Hampton Road (Route 66)
Historic Building Name: C. Carter, Jr. House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber), 1865 (Assessor)
Description: 86 East Hampton Road closely resembles the house next door at 78 East Hampton Road, or did so originally. The three-bay gable-end elevation of the house forms its facade. The doorway is in the east bay, with a new door. Windows are 1-over-1. The gable end is the location of a vertical louvered opening. The east side elevation has two windows at first floor, three at the second. A one-story ell runs to the rear. Both the main block and the ell have a central brick chimney. The house has recently been rehabilitated with new cedar clapboards, at present unpainted. The property is 10 acres. A 1978 inventory (Baber) described the doorway as having flanking pilasters and a pediment, surrounding a six-panel door, and a horizontal window in the gable end.
Significance: The house is significant because it was built in the Greek Revival style in concert with a near duplicate next door. Apparently, the houses were owned by a father and son, C. Carter and C. Carter, Jr. In the recent rehabilitation of the house several architecturally significant features were lost.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 17 East Lake Road
Contemporary Building Name: Lakeside Cottage
Historic Building Name: Blish Resort Cottage
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial Revival cottage
Date constructed: 1930 (Assessor)
Description: The cottage is sited at the top of a pronounced rise and in addition is raised above a visible stone foundation of 4'/5' in height. The overall effect is a position of prominence overlooking the northern end of Lake Terramuggus. A wooden porch eight feet wide wraps around the front and two sides of the building. The porch parapet is particle board siding, perhaps contemporary with the novelty siding on the building itself, perhaps a later, but early, replacement. Wooden steps now lead to an entry to the porch off center to the south, but older concrete steps are in place at the front of the south side of the porch, now leading up to the closed parapet. The front elevation, first floor, has a door to the south and two tripartite windows, each section of which is a tall vertical pane. The is a pair of single vertical windows at the second floor. On the north side elevation the first floor features a similar pair of windows, while two shed-roofed dormers project at second-floor level, each with a single large 1-over-1 window. On the south side elevation the porch is screened by diagonal wood latticework under two second-floor dormers identical to those on the north. The rear elevation projects in a one-story shed-roofed entry, under two 1-over-1 windows above.
Significance: 17 East Lake Road is significant architecturally because it is a good example of a lakeside cottage of its era. It is in a good state of preservation, having undergone few changes. The novelty siding is original, a characteristic building material of the 1920s/1930s. The wide wraparound front porch appears to be original and complete. The gambrel roof places the building under the umbrella of the Colonial Revival style. Its shed-roofed dormers materially increase the amount of usable second-floor space. The cottage was one in the group owned and rented out by the Blish family (see 23-25 Blish Road) when it operated a small summer resort at the north end of the lake in the first half of the 20th century. 17 East Lake Road is representative of dozens of cottages of similar size and age which line the shores of Lake Terramuggus. Such lakes and their summer-cottage colonies around in south central Connecticut.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 115 Flood Road
Contemporary Building Name: 115 Flood Road
Historic Building Name: Flood House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: 1880 (Assessor)
Description: 115 Flood Road is plain, with architectural features of any style. An exterior brick chimney is prominently in view on the gable end of the building facing the street. The chimney is flanked by 1-over-1 windows at both first and second floors. Entrance is on the right (east) front elevation, behind a small gabled porch supported by slender square posts. Entrance is flanked by 1-over-1s at both floors. Entrance (west) elevation has no fenestration. There is no attic. Roof overhangs slightly.
Significance: The house at 115 Flood Street is a small vernacular structure. It was owned by the Flood family when the street was named.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 73 Hebron Road
Contemporary Building Name: 73 Hebron Road
Historic Building Name: n/a
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1840 (Baber), 1870 (Assessor)
Description: In the three-bay front elevation, the doorway is in the west bay. It is flanked by pilasters which support an entablature. Windows are 6-over-6. Corner pilasters run up to a frieze which surrounds the house. The gable end is treated as a pediment, covered with flush boarding and with a central horizontal rectangular window. The raking cornices of the pediment have parallel friezes. The one-story wing to the west is set behind a shed-roofed front porch which has slender square posts joined to the eaves with sawn brackets. Steps of large stone blocks rise from the highway to the porch entry, indicating that the porch and wing are old, probably dating from the 19th century.
Significance: The house at 73 Hebron Road is significant because it is a good example of the Greek Revival style, exhibiting the basic temple-form gable-end shape and the simple, strong proportions associated with the style. In addition, many individual features are characteristic of the Greek Revival style, including doorway and corner pilasters, 6-over-6 windows, and tympanum with friezes, flush boarding, and rectangular window. The apparent age of the wing supports the overall integrity of the resource.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 88 Hebron Road
Contemporary Building Name: 88 Hebron Road
Historic Building Name: T. Daley House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1760-1800 (Baber), 1745 (Assessor)
Description: In the front elevation the central doorway is flanked by fluted pilasters which support an entablature. The four-panel door is under a four-light transom. There are two 6-over-6 windows on each side. A small, tall central brick chimney rises from the ridge line. A bow window on the west is balanced by a small wing on the east, with a long ell extending to the rear.
Significance: The house is a good example of a one-story Colonial structure which continues to exhibit the five-bay central-doorway central-chimney configuration associated with the building type. The many alterations and additions have not diminished the original concept. The 1869 atlas identifies the house with T. Daley's name.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 43 Hodge Road
Contemporary Building Name: 43 Hodge Road
Historic Building Name: A. Huntley House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1840 (Baber)
Description: The doorway is recessed in the easternmost of three bays in the front elevation, which has gable end toward the street in the temple mode of the Greek Revival style. The door, which is approached by a large stone block, is flanked by narrow four-paned sidelights and plain pilasters under a transom of four narrow panes. A frieze and well-molded cornice surmount the transom. Above, the eaves of the main roof return briefly. The horizontal window in the gable end is glazed with paired vertical muntins and high and low single horizontal muntins. Fascias run below the raking eaves. On the side elevations there are two 6-over-6 windows at each floor and a fascia or frieze under the eaves. The ell is almost as large as the main block.
Significance: On the 1869 atlas the house is associated with the name A. Huntley. It is a good example of the Greek Revival style because of the proportions and mass, which are simple, bold, and well-related to one another without being overpowering. Some excellent specific Greek Revival features remain, such as the recessed doorway, the unusually narrow side and transom lights, and the attic window with characteristic plaid glazing. Other details appear to have been lost to the siding, possibly including corner pilasters and main cornice and frieze. The frieze continues in place on the side elevations.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 54 Hodge Road
Contemporary Building Name: 54 Hodge Road
Historic Building Name: Hodge House; W. I. Hills House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1780-1820 (Baber), 1700 (Assessor)
Description: The broad front elevation of the low house is divided into five bays with central door, whose surround is covered by the asbestos siding, and 6-over-6 sash. Small rectangular windows are located under the eaves in each bay. A partial shed dormer occupies the center of the front roof slope, with a slender chimney rising behind it. A second exterior chimney is on the north side elevation.
Significance: Since the name of the road is Hodge and the name of the owner of the house is Hodge, it is presumed that the Hodge family has lived here for generations, but the 1869 atlas may associate the property with the name W. I. Hills. The house is old, as evidenced by the low windows located close under the eaves on the north side elevation, which suggest that the Assessor's date of 1700 may be reasonably accurate. A house on the 1869 atlas carrying the name W. I. Hills may be the Hodge House, but on the map it appears to be too far north. In addition to having the features of the eaves windows, the house is significant for its large size (35 feet in breadth), and the fact that it has not been added onto, having no ell, no wing. The chief alteration has been the addition of the front shed dormer. Some trim details may still be in place under the siding.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 27 Isleib Road
Contemporary Building Name: 27 Isleib Road
Historic Building Name: H. Beindhammer House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Georgian
Date constructed: 1748 (Baber/owner), 1764 (Assessor)
Description: The H. Beindhammer House occupies a commanding position close to the highway on both its front and east elevations, at the point where Isleib Road changes its direction from north and west. The front elevation is divided into five bays of 8-over-12 windows and central doorway. The batten door on strap hinges under five-light transom is surrounded by a molding with eared architrave. Flanking pilasters carry up through the architrave to support the cornice above. Corner boards define the profile of the house. On the west elevation, there are two 8-over-12 windows at first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic. The property consists of 18 acres.
Significance: The H. Beindhammer house is so identified on the 1869 atlas. It has recently been rehabilitated, now having 8-over-12 windows rather than the 6-over-6 sash reported by Baber (1978 inventory), and a batten door rather than a six panel door. The general level of maintenance is ambitious. If the elaborate doorway with its slender proportions is original, the house is an early example of the Georgian style.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 30 Isleib Road
Contemporary Building Name: 30 Isleib Road
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1924 (owner), 1923 (assessor)
Description: The unconventional setting of the house is set off by the drive into the property which runs diagonally to the northeast from the corner of Isleib Street. The overall appearance is one of the starkness and age, dramatized by an area of the wall where the asbestos siding is missing to reveal the original clapboards, perhaps where a front porch once joined the front wall. The front elevation is divided into four asymmetrical bays in a 1-2-1 rhythm. The door is in the west central location. Windows on the front are 4-over-2. The vertical panes of the upper sash are glazed in an elongated diamond pattern with small diamonds at the top. Other windows are 2-over-2. Fenestration on the west side elevation is two windows at first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic.
Significance: A house at about this location is identified on the 1869 atlas with the name O. Dickinson, but the owner and assessor agree that this building was constructed c. 1923. It is significant architecturally because of the fact the front elevation has four bays, not evenly spaced. See 55, 93, and 141 Chapman Street fro four-bay Colonial houses, but this house is with similar fenestration pattern is Colonial Revival. The window-glazing patterns of 2-over-2 and diamond panes reflect 19th century influence which carried over into the first quarter of the 20th century. The diamond glazing is one of the few examples of Queen Anne-style detail in Marlborough. The owner states that the house was built out of old lumber for staff housing on a large grape orchard property.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 57-59 Johnson Road
Contemporary Building Name: 57-59 Johnson Road
Historic Building Name: E. Bolles House, Gustav Johnson House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial / Federal
Date constructed: 1815 (Baber)
Description: The E. Bolles House presents an important presence from its site above the road, behind the stone wall and picket fence. The rhythm of the five bays in the front elevation is 2-1-2. The central front doorway is framed by pilasters supporting a broken-bed pediment which surrounds a semi-elliptical leaded fanlight. Windows are 2-over-2 except for small 6-over-6 attic sash in the gable ends. A course of small dentils runs under the front eaves. The chimney in the center of the roof ridge is small in plan and tall. The Keith form (WPA inventory, 1935) reports a Dutch oven in the rear ell, suggesting that it may be the original part of the house. The interior of the main block, according to Keith, has fine finishes, including beaded columns and dentil course on one front room fireplace surround.
Significance: The E. Bolles house is significant architecturally because it is a good example of a Colonial five-bay structure with the Adamsque feature of a semi-elliptical fanlight. This feature is associated with the Federal style, which was in vogue from c. 1780 to c. 1820, an era consistent with the date of the house. The house is also different from many because of the imposing landscaping of wall, fence, and trees which enhances its elevated site. The stone and wrought-iron fence appears to be quite similar to the fence at the Mosely Talcott House made by William Richmond (see 5 Cheney Road). The house is identified with the name E. Bolles on the 1869 atlas. It was later owned by Gustav Johnson, for whom the road is named. Gustav Johnson's daughter, Ethel Fowler, served as Marlborough Town Clerk until her recent retirement.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 15 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 15 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: H.D. Barrows House, Store
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber)
Description: 15 Jones Hollow Road is a Greek Revival house with pedimented gable end toward the street. Four fluted Doric columns are at the front of a full-width recessed concrete front porch, which is approached by four concrete risers. The columns, without entablature, support the building's second story. Behind the columnar screen, the front door with sidelights and wide flanking pilasters under a four-pane transom is to the left (south). Two floor-to-ceiling 6-over-9 windows with blinds are to the right. At the second floor the lintels of the two windows abut the cornice, without architrave or frieze. The front of the second floor, over the porch, is defined by cornerboards. The cornice is embellished with a course of small pointed drop pendants or arrows, as are the raking cornices. The raking cornices have friezes. A rectangular window is in the center of the shingled tympanum. A central brick chimney rises from the ridge while a second exterior chimney is located toward the rear on the south elevation; both are corbeled.
Significance: 15 Jones Hollow Road displays many architectural features characteristic of the Greek Revival style, but in an unusual juxtaposition. The rectangular mass with gable end to street is the classical temple form. The three-bay first-floor elevation, fluted Doric columns, flanking doorway pilasters, and gable end tympanum with rectangular window all fit the style. The recessed front porch, however, is odd, as is the absence of entablature above the four columns and below the pediment cornice. The 1869 atlas shows two structures at about the location of 15 Jones Hollow Road. The southerly building is labeled "H.D. Barrows," the northerly one "Store". In the Directory for the atlas plate, H.D. Barrows is listed as "Merchant". Probabilities are that the store was a small building in the side yard of the house (presumably the present building). Nevertheless, it is tempting to offer the conjecture that the odd recessed front porch of the house somehow reflects the earlier presence of shop windows.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 131 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: HRS Farm
Historic Building Name: A. B. Latham House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1780-1820 (Baber), 1783 (Assessor)
Description: The low mass of the A.B. Latham House hugs the high ground behind the tall stone retaining wall at road's edge. In the five-bay front elevat