Address: 195 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: Fuller House
Historic Building Name: Joel Fuller – John H. Fuller House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Georgian / Queen Anne
Date constructed: 1780-1790 (Baber / Keith)
Description: The Fuller House is a Georgian five-bay central-entrance central-chimney house with 19th century and perhaps 20th century alterations. An important late 19th century alteration is the large gabled hood over the front door. Supported by triangular brackets, it is covered with imbricated shingles and has a scalloped bargeboard, in the Queen Anne style. The two-story three-sided bay on the south elevation may date from late 19th century or early 20th century. The tripartite picture window south of the front door probably is a 20th century feature, replacing two 2-over-1 windows. Other windows in the house are 2-over-1. The window over the front-door hood peak is smaller than the others, replacing an original to accommodate the peak of the hood. A dentil course runs under the eaves of the main roof, an embellishment which justifies assigning the house to the Georgian style. The roof above, which overhangs the side elevations, is steeply pitched while its central chimney is square and massive. Fenestration on the north side elevation consists of two 2-over-1 windows at the first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic. On the south side there is a wooden fire escape behind the bay. A barn has weathered vertical wood siding.
Significance: The Fuller House is significant architecturally because it shows changes made over time to an 18th century house. The basic house, with its steeply pitched roof and five-bays, exhibits a characteristic feature of the 18th century Georgian style in the molded embellishment of a dentil course under the eaves. The imbricated shingles and scalloped bargeboards of the over-scaled front-door hood and the two-story southern bay are 19th century Queen Anne changes, while the picture window probably dates from the 20th century. On the 1879 atlas both the names Joel Fuller and J.H. Fuller are shown near the house. The present resident owner is also named Fuller. Keith states (WPA inventory, 1935), that the house had been in the Fuller family for 100 years.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Keith, Elmer D., director. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project, Census of Old of Distinctive Buildings in the State of Connecticut. c. 1935.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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