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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