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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