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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