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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