Address: 19 Blackledge Road
Contemporary Building Name: Patricia Daigle House
Historic Building Name: Toll House?
Present Use: Two Family Residence
Historic Use: Toll House
Architectural Style: Vernacular
Date Constructed: 1900 (Accessor), 1780-1820 (Baber)
Description: The building has a five bay facade which is perpendicular to Blackledge Road. The center doorway is nondescript. Windows are generally large 6/6 double hung sash. The corners of the main facade have fluted pilasters topped with square blocks. These do not appear to be original. The structure underwent structural repairs in 1991 due to insect damage.
Significance: The structure is rumored to be an old toll house. Blackledge Road was once known at the Willimantic Road and part of the historic "highway" network. A 1855 map depicts a toll house in the vicinity. A 1929 map depicts the property as being owned by Chris S. Christensen but no house location is given. Property owners in the immediate vicinity were Wm. W. Hall and Geo. W. Buell. A 1955 map of property belonging to Roland O. Bricault also depicts an old foundation on the property.
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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Address: 3-5 Austin Drive
Contemporary Building Name: 3-5 Austin Drive
Historic Building Name: Austin Homestead
Present Use: Office
Historic Use: Residence
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Italianate, Queen Anne
Date constructed: 1860 (Assessor)
Description: The house is L-Shaped with the 2-bay gable end of the (east) stem facing the street. The angle of the L is filled with a one-story section. A two-story ell extends to the rear on the south. There is no basement, according to the Assessor's field card, giving rise to the supposition that the house has been moved. Most windows have 6-over-6 replacement sash in flat surrounds. At the first floor of the front elevation, a doorway with plain porch to the left is balanced to the right by a three-sided bay under projecting flat roof. The entablature above the bay windows consists of a frieze with triglyphs, dentil course and sawtooth course. The lintels of the two second-floor windows are embellished by dentil courses under their crown moldings. The gable end above features a wide radial truss in front of a louvered round window opening. Chamfered truss members meet at a central hub from which a drop pendant is suspended. Also behind the truss another sawtooth course takes the place of a conventional gable-end entablature, while the gable's raking eaves carry wide fascias. Gable end is covered with saw-toothed imbricated shingles. Two bays similar to that on the front but two-stories high appear on the west side elevation, toward the front and the back. The back is new construction, replicating the two-story bay of the front.
Significance: 3-5 Austin Road is significant architecturally because of the variety of styles which it displays. The compact mass and rectangular dimensions of the section with gable end toward to street suggest the house was built in the Greek Revival period. The fascias of the raking eaves of the gable are appropriate from a Greek pediment, while the crown moldings and dentil courses of the second-floor windows also fit the style. The shape and projecting flat roofs of the bays are mid-century Italianate features, followed, perhaps after the Civil War, by the truss and imbricated shingles associated with the Queen Anne style.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998
Notes: Moved at an unknown date.

Address: 10 Blackledge Road
Contemporary Building Name: 10 Blackledge Road
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residence
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1845 (Baber), 1862 (Assessor)
Description: The house consists of a two-story pedimented gable end facing the street flanked by a one-story long wing to the south and a one-story small ell to the north. The front of the two-story principal block has four bays, arranged in a 2-2 rhythm, without doorway. Windows are 6-over-6. Corners of the building are defined by paneled pilasters. The deeply recessed pediment features a central vertical 6-over-6 window under wide frieze and molded cornice. In the surrounding tympanum the clapboard pattern is chevron-shaped. Front entrance is though the one-story wing to the south. This 24' x 16' segment therefore may be part of the original house. Like the main block, it has a central brick chimney. A 1923 addition reference by the Assessor's field card may be the extension of he wing or the ell to the north. The property consists of nine acres, probably representing the remaining portion of a farm parcel.
Significance: 10 Blackledge Road is significant architecturally because it is a fine example of the Greek Revival style, will-maintained and in a good state of preservation, with unusual features. The unusual features include the four-bay arrangement of the front elevation, the absence of a front door, and the presence of the vertical highly articulated pediment window. Its surrounding diagonal boarding also is seldom found. The distinctive size, orientation, and entablature of the attic window may be a favored Marlborough treatment. See also 23-25 Blish Road.
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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Address: 23-25 Blish Road
Contemporary Building Name: 23-25 Blish Road
Historic Building Name: Blish Homestead
Present Use: 2-family residence
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1866 (Assessor)
Description: The two-bay pedimented gable end of the Blish Homestead is toward the street. Windows are 6-over-6, except in the tympanum. Window surrounds are flat, with splayed lintels which, in the second floor, abut and merge with a wide frieze which encircles the house at the roof line. There are plain corner boards rather than pilasters. Entrance is through a 7-foot shed-roofed recessed open porch to the south. The central 6-over-6 window in the pediment is thoroughly articulated with flanking pilasters under wide frieze and small gabled pediment (see also 10 Blackledge Road). The tympanum is covered with flush boarding. A central chimney rises from the ridge. The rood of the 25-foot first section of the one-story ell is lower than the main roof. There is a chimney in the rear wall. A second 16-foot one-story section of the ell has a higher roof line.
Significance: The Blish Homestead is significant architecturally because it is a good example of the Greek Revival style with unusual features. The bold simple massing, gable end to street, frieze, and other detailing are consistent with the style. The presence of only two bays and no doorway in the front of the main block are out of the ordinary as is the pediment's vertical window with fully expressed surround. Both these elements are also found at 10 Blackledge Road. The site is distinguished by its landscape architecture. The unusual long length and massive stone blocks of the front retaining wall dominate the view of the house. The wall, the elevated position of the building behind the wall, and the related scenic view to the west combine to create a desirable setting that may be unique in Marlborough.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey, 1978.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 15 Bull Hill Road
Contemporary Building Name: Hillfield Farm
Historic Building Name: A. Skinner House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber)
Description: The house at Hillfield Farm dominates the farm site from its elevated location. In the three-bay facade the doorway to the right (west) is flanked by plain pilasters which support an entablature with a row of five transom lights and a modillion course under the narrow crown molding. The surrounds of the 12-over-12 windows are obscured by the aluminum siding. The fenestration as a group is off center to the east. Building corners are defined by narrow paneled pilasters. The height of the pediment is low for its width, but it is well-recessed and has cornice and raking cornices of cyma moldings. The central window is a vertical 6-over-6, a not-uncommon feature in Marlborough. The original surface of the tympanum is covered over by the siding, which extends to the raking cornices probably also covering the raking friezes. Windows on the west side elevation are placed in a 1-2 rhythm, while a large central brick chimney rises from the roof ridge. A shed roof covers the 10-foot rear addition. Several outbuildings are located to the rear, with a riding-ring paddock on the east side of the house. The premises appear to be a working horse farm although the size of the property is shown by the fieldcard to be only 1.4 acres.
Significance: The house at Hillfield Farm is significant architecturally because it is an example of the Greek Revival style exhibiting several features of the style in a more attenuated interpretation than is commonly found. The pilasters flanking the doorway, the crown molding of the cornice above, the corner pilasters of the house, and the pediment's cornice moldings are all thinner and more refined -- less bold, than is characteristic of the style. Such attenuation is more often found in the Federal style, which preceded the Greek Revival, suggesting that this house may have been built before c. 1840. The presence of aluminum siding gives a good example of the visually detrimental effects of applying such siding. The wall-plane relationship between the window surrounds and the walls is diminished -- there is less reveal; and the original design of the surround is lost. In the pediment the surface of the tympanum is lost, as are the probably raking friezes. The 1869 atlas identifies the house with the name A. Skinner.
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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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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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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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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Address: 93 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 93 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Henry West House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1740-1780 (Baber)
Description: The house at 93 Chapman Road is a one-story three-bay (now), central-chimney Colonial building. There is one 6-over-6 window to the left, close to the door, and one to the right in a larger space, suggesting the possibility that the configuration may have been four-bay originally. Three windows are in place on the east elevation, first floor, with two, close together, at the second. A shed-roofed dormer has been added on the rear roof slop, and a low shed-roofed full-width ell across the back.
Significance: 93 Chapman Road is smaller in ground plan and lower in height than its roughly comparable neighbors at 55 Chapman Road and 141 Chapman Road, and is without the eaves windows. Consequently, even if four-bay originally, which is conjectural, it is not a close duplicate of the other two but is generally similar and of the same period.
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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Address: 141 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 141 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Henry West, Jr. House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1740-1770 (Baber)
Description: 141 Chapman Road is a four-bay one-story, tall-central-chimney Colonial building with steeply pitched gable roof. The door is in the second bay from the left. Windows are 2-over-2 on the front, 6-over-6 on the sides except for the four-pane eaves windows which are found on the east side only. The attic windows also are four-pane. The ell, built at least in part in 1933, is both one-story and two-story. The foundation material is described by the assessor's field card as concrete, cinder block and by the Baber inventory (1978) form as stone. The difference is important because, if the assessor's description is correct, the house was originally elsewhere and was moved to this location. A possible explanation is that the stone foundation is parged and therefore looks like concrete from the exterior.
Significance: 141 Chapman Road is the last in the row of three similar houses on the south side of Chapman Road. Like 55 Chapman Road, to which it is similar in size, it has eaves windows on the east, and probably originally on the west, as well. The door, however, is in the second bay from the left instead of the third. 55 Chapman Road and 141 Chapman Road are close to being a pair, while 93 Chapman Road is smaller and may not originally have had four bays.
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.
Notes: House has probably been moved from its original to its current location.

Address: 5 Cheney Road
Contemporary Building Name: 5 Cheney Road
Historic Building Name: Captain Moseley Talcott House, J.W. Day Farm
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1773-1800 (Keith)
Description: The front elevation of the house at 5 Cheney Road has five bays spaced in a 2-1-2 rhythm, with central doorway and tall central chimney. The front door is set off by sidelights of four vertical panes under a five-pane transom. Second-floor lintels abut the eaves fascia. The barn features weathered vertical siding. The Keith photograph (1935) does not show the rear wing to the north.
Significance: The Captain Moseley Talcott House is a fine example of a large, tall Colonial house in a good state of preservation. The front retaining wall and iron fence add an element of historic landscape architecture. The fence was fabricated on the premises in 1823 by a blacksmith named William Richmond. The Marlborough library is named after his son William Henry Richmond, who became a coal magnate in Scranton, Pennsylvania. There once was a cider mill at the rear of this property, toward the end of what is now called Old Cider Mill Lane.
Sources: Keith, Elmer D., director. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project, Census of Old or Distinctive Buildings in the State of Connecticut. c. 1935.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: THIS HOUSE BURNED DOWN, AND WAS REBUILT WITH A NEW CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURE, IN 2003.

Address: 73 Cheney Road
Contemporary Building Name: 73 Cheney Road
Historic Building Name: Cheney Rock/Residence
Present Use: Residence
Historic Use: Summer House
Architectural style: Contemporary/Modern
Date constructed: c. 1898 foundation (assessor) / reconstructed 1988
Description: The two-story house is large and modern with gabled roof.
Significance: Although all of the architectural significance is lost, the location retains some local importance as being the summer home of Knight D. Cheney, who was part of the prominent Cheney Family who owned and operated the Cheney Mill in Manchester. The Cheneys summered on Lake Terramugus. Knight D. Cheney purchased the 1 1/2 acre parcel from James Bell in 1884. Frank Cheney, Jr. also purchased the adjoining 100 acres from James Bell in 1893. Knight quit claimed the parcel to Frank in 1903. Frank then sold the property to the Marlborough Club in 1903 although he appears to have kept some adjoining property which was then sold to the Marlborough Club in 1947. The Marlborough Club kept the property through the late 1950s.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: Original building was lost, and a new building was constructed in 1988 upon the original foundation.

Address: 10 Cooley Road
Contemporary Building Name: Buckhill Farms
Historic Building Name: Cooley House, R. Bigelow House, Foote House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial / Georgian
Date constructed: 1780 (CHC)
Description: The Cooley House is a five-bay central-doorway central-chimney Colonial building with an unusually long (58') ell. Windows are 6-over-6 with blinds. In the small front porch square posts support a gabled roof with eaves returns. The paneled front door is flanked by six-pane sidelights. On the west side elevation there are two windows like those on the front at both first and second floors and a larger window in the attic. An unusually tall second chimney rises from the ridge of the ell about one-third of the way back.
Significance: The dimensions of the Cooley House are large both in ground plan and height, as well as in the length of the ell. The classical revival features of the front porch, if original, make the house an early example of the Georgian style of architecture, although the central chimney is Colonial. The ell dates from the 19th century, except for the final section, which was added in 1989. The building is shown on the 1869 atlas as the R. Bigelow House.
Sources: Connecticut Historical Commission Historic American Buildings Survey, 1967.
Ransom, David. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Description: The Marlborough Tavern, also known as the Colonel Elisha Buell House, is a central chimney Colonial house with a gambrel roof and three front dormers. Situated at the junction of East Hampton Road (Route 66) and South Main Street in Marlborough, the clapboarded tavern faces east and was for many years, prior to the coming of the railroad, a major stopover on the turnpike from Hartford to New London. A late 18th century ell along the north wall of the original tavern is the first of several additions which now link the old inn with its barn, which has been re-sided but retains its original interior construction. The foundations of the structure are of rough fieldstone. In the cellar, the chimney is brick. The two-story facade is heightened by the gambrel roof, the third floor lit by three dormers in the front and a fourth to the rear, in the southwest corner. The attic floor is lit by two windows, north and south; this area once served as a guardroom for prisoners on their way to Old New-gate prison and was damaged by fire in the early part of this [20th] century. The nine window clapboarded face is punctuated by a double leaved door with a simple molded architrave and a single row of five lights across the top. Paired six over six sash [windows] flank the doorway. Above, the shingled dormers (once clapboarded), six over six sashed [windows] , are topped with small hipped roofs. Narrow clapboards are framed at the corners with narrow vertical boarding. The main cornice, a plain narrow molding, comes flush with the corner boards and continues up along the pitch of the roof. To the left, along the south wall, a modern "lean-to" has been added across the first floor; it is one of several modern additions whose construction has somewhat diminished the solid lines of the original tavern. These additions are all of wood construction with clapboard sheathing and are thus at least structurally compatible with the tavern and its eighteenth century ell. A modern white picket fence surmounts the ancient fieldstone wall enclosing the yard which is planted with several old trees. The gambrel roof has recently been shingled with asphalt, but the tavern's clapboards are original. The brick chimney is centered along the ridge, with the width facing the front of the tavern. Two courses are corbelled up to the third directly beneath the top of the chimney. The end walls of the main house both originally contained six large six over six windows and one smaller attic window; the south walls lean-to eradicates the first story windows there, while on the third floor an additional window, centered between the two original sash, has been inserted. The one-story ell dominated the north elevation of the tavern, extending to the rear of the structure for approximately 60 feet, though the oldest section built in the 18th century, occupies only a third of that length. The entrance to the ell, a door just to the rear of the tavern’s northwest corner, is particularly fine, with arched panels, long strap hinges and a wrought iron latch. At the time, two chimneys divided the ell; these chimneys no longer exist though the presence of the easternmost chimney can still be noted in exposed interior beams which were cut subsequent to the ell’s construction to accommodate the chimneys insertion. The joiner’s framing marks can be seen on the hewn and pegged beams, illustrating the colonial craftsman’s methods of construction. The shallow porch and open terrace are modern additions built after the tavern was purchased for operation as a restaurant. Still another addition, c. 1965, built out from the ell along its south wall encloses a large banquet hall. To accommodate this addition, the original stone hatchway of the tavern through which kegs were lowered into the tavern’s cellar, was removed. The room is at present dominated by a massive fireplace in its northeast corner. Connected to the ell is the barn, once located closer to Route 66 but moved, c. 1950 to become part of the restaurant complex. The barn with (recently applied) vertical board sheathing and simple gable roof retains its interior framing and much of its original detail. Thus, the entire Marlborough Tavern complex consists of two main components, the old tavern, and the barn, connected by a series of ells and additions. An abundance of original detail remains within the old tavern structure. The paneled double door enters into an inner porch, situated just forward of the chimney, off of which are the two main chambers, the dining room to the right and taproom to the left, and from which the main stairway leads. It is a present unused, the main entrance to the restaurant now being through the barn. Across the rear, what were once three rooms have been opened up to form one long room the width of the tavern. The central section was once the kitchen for the tavern; the wide hearth with its crane and brick oven remains. The floors in the old tavern are ancient wide boards. In the taproom, the present flooring comes from what was once the guardroom in the attic. Likewise, the bar and its grill, a screen with slats which hinged to the ceiling and could be lowered n the event of a rowdy crowed, is a careful reproduction (using old wood) of the bar which stood in the southwest corner of the taproom. In both of the two main chambers, the taproom and the dining room, the chimney wall is covered with paneling; wall cupboards exist in both panels. Flared posts are visible in the old house although the summer beam is obscured by plastering on the second floor, the tavern’s ball-room has a swinging partition which could be used to divide it into smaller rooms. Despite additions, which confuse but do not obscure its integrity, the Marlborough Tavern, a late colonial country inn, survives today and continues to serve, as it has for many years, the hungry traveler.
Significance: The Marlborough Tavern is a Colonial country inn whose architecture reflects the forthright simplicity of rural life in the 18th century. A central chimney structure, two stories tall with a gambrel roof and three front dormers, the clapboarded tavern stands behind its fieldstone and white picket fence at the junction of East Hampton Road (Route 66) and South Main Street in Marlborough. In the days before the railroad, the Tavern was a major stopping point along the turnpike from Hartford to New London. The town's activities centered at the Marlborough Tavern; early in the 19th century, meetings for the town's incorporation were held there. As a commercial center, too, the Tavern contributed to Marlborough's life. Tow or three horse carriages stopped there daily to change horses. Traders and drovers haggled there. Militia men trained nearby and celebrated the end of the Revolutionary War there, stacking their muskets in the corner of the taproom. Involuntary guests, prisoners, spent the night there, locked up in the guardroom in the Tavern's attic. The innkeeper, Colonel Elisha Buell, was a gunsmith and skilled metalworker who had his shop to the north of the inn. During the 19th century, the Buell family was engaged in Marlborough's trade in firewood: Marlborough timber was shipped from Middle Haddam to New York City to be sold there for firewood. Until 1898, the Buell family continued to keep the inn. Shortly after, the house was purchased by Mary Hall, a Connecticut lawyer, who left it to the Society of Colonial Dames. The Colonial Dames effected the restoration of the taproom, added the picket fence and laid out gardens in the north lawn, running the Tavern as a tearoom. Most recently, the Matsikas family owns and operates the Marlborough Tavern as a restaurant. Neither pretensious nor grand, the Marlborough Tavern is an old New England country inn, homey, as in fact it was Elisha Buell's home, and utilitarian. Three dormers light the third floor, opening up more space for guests there. The attic, in the last available space below the peak of the roof, served as a guardroom for prisoners being transported to Old New-Gate gaol, and the ballroom, an important space for large meetings as well as for balls, could be divided, if necessary, for guests by swinging out the partition. In time, an ell was added to further accomodate the Tavern's many guests and other additions have been made to meet the requirements of its present function as a restaurant. The north elevation retains much of its original appearance, set back on a broad lawn with several old trees framing the north-east corner. A low concrete terrace marks the juncture of the ell and the barn. The addition of a long, one-story banquet hall along the south side has altered this elevation but the approach to the Tavern from East Hampton Road (Route 66) and South Main Street reveals the inn in its traditional setting, on a slight rise, behind its ancient stone wall, set off by a white picket fence. There is little fanciful or elegant detail in the Marlborough Tavern but the sure hand of the carpenter's handwork transcends the Tavern's artlessness and creates a unity of methods and materials. Despite additions which have altered the Marlborough Tavern's original appearance, still the old inn stands out, its clean lines and worn clapboards proclaiming its substance and endurance.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places Nomination, July 1978.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: Part of the restored "mall" burned in 1989. The Marlborough Tavern remains open as a restaurant. Information is taken directly from the National Register Nomination form.

Address: 78 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: 78 East Hampton Road (Route 66)
Historic Building Name: C. Carter House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber), 1887 (Assessor)
Description: The gable-end front elevation of the C. Carter House has the typical Greek Revival-style fenestration of three bays, with door in the left (west) bay. The two windows at the first floor and three at the second are under molded cornices. The eaves of the gable end return slightly, not forming a pediment, but there is a central rectangular window in the gable, as commonly found in a pediment. A central brick chimney stands above the ridge line. The wing to the west appears to be an early-to-mid-20th century addition, with a hipped-roof front porch. The wing extends to form a garage whose doorway is at grade, because the elevation falls off, under three paired horizontal windows. The property consists of eight acres.
Significance: The main block is a good example of the Greek Revival style, smaller in size than many. The absence of a pediment combined with the Assessor's 1887 construction date suggest the the house may be "retarditaire" in date of construction, i.e. built toward the end of the Greek Revival period. The 1869 atlas shows a house at approximately this location. If the entry is correct, the house obviously was built before 1869, and the Assessor's date is not correct. The 1869 atlas identifies the property with the name C. Carter. C. Carter, Jr., lived next door at 86 East Hampton Road.
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.
Notes:

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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Address: 17 East Lake Road
Contemporary Building Name: Lakeside Cottage
Historic Building Name: Blish Resort Cottage
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial Revival cottage
Date constructed: 1930 (Assessor)
Description: The cottage is sited at the top of a pronounced rise and in addition is raised above a visible stone foundation of 4'/5' in height. The overall effect is a position of prominence overlooking the northern end of Lake Terramuggus. A wooden porch eight feet wide wraps around the front and two sides of the building. The porch parapet is particle board siding, perhaps contemporary with the novelty siding on the building itself, perhaps a later, but early, replacement. Wooden steps now lead to an entry to the porch off center to the south, but older concrete steps are in place at the front of the south side of the porch, now leading up to the closed parapet. The front elevation, first floor, has a door to the south and two tripartite windows, each section of which is a tall vertical pane. The is a pair of single vertical windows at the second floor. On the north side elevation the first floor features a similar pair of windows, while two shed-roofed dormers project at second-floor level, each with a single large 1-over-1 window. On the south side elevation the porch is screened by diagonal wood latticework under two second-floor dormers identical to those on the north. The rear elevation projects in a one-story shed-roofed entry, under two 1-over-1 windows above.
Significance: 17 East Lake Road is significant architecturally because it is a good example of a lakeside cottage of its era. It is in a good state of preservation, having undergone few changes. The novelty siding is original, a characteristic building material of the 1920s/1930s. The wide wraparound front porch appears to be original and complete. The gambrel roof places the building under the umbrella of the Colonial Revival style. Its shed-roofed dormers materially increase the amount of usable second-floor space. The cottage was one in the group owned and rented out by the Blish family (see 23-25 Blish Road) when it operated a small summer resort at the north end of the lake in the first half of the 20th century. 17 East Lake Road is representative of dozens of cottages of similar size and age which line the shores of Lake Terramuggus. Such lakes and their summer-cottage colonies around in south central Connecticut.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 115 Flood Road
Contemporary Building Name: 115 Flood Road
Historic Building Name: Flood House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: 1880 (Assessor)
Description: 115 Flood Road is plain, with architectural features of any style. An exterior brick chimney is prominently in view on the gable end of the building facing the street. The chimney is flanked by 1-over-1 windows at both first and second floors. Entrance is on the right (east) front elevation, behind a small gabled porch supported by slender square posts. Entrance is flanked by 1-over-1s at both floors. Entrance (west) elevation has no fenestration. There is no attic. Roof overhangs slightly.
Significance: The house at 115 Flood Street is a small vernacular structure. It was owned by the Flood family when the street was named.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 73 Hebron Road
Contemporary Building Name: 73 Hebron Road
Historic Building Name: n/a
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1840 (Baber), 1870 (Assessor)
Description: In the three-bay front elevation, the doorway is in the west bay. It is flanked by pilasters which support an entablature. Windows are 6-over-6. Corner pilasters run up to a frieze which surrounds the house. The gable end is treated as a pediment, covered with flush boarding and with a central horizontal rectangular window. The raking cornices of the pediment have parallel friezes. The one-story wing to the west is set behind a shed-roofed front porch which has slender square posts joined to the eaves with sawn brackets. Steps of large stone blocks rise from the highway to the porch entry, indicating that the porch and wing are old, probably dating from the 19th century.
Significance: The house at 73 Hebron Road is significant because it is a good example of the Greek Revival style, exhibiting the basic temple-form gable-end shape and the simple, strong proportions associated with the style. In addition, many individual features are characteristic of the Greek Revival style, including doorway and corner pilasters, 6-over-6 windows, and tympanum with friezes, flush boarding, and rectangular window. The apparent age of the wing supports the overall integrity of the resource.
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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Address: 88 Hebron Road
Contemporary Building Name: 88 Hebron Road
Historic Building Name: T. Daley House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1760-1800 (Baber), 1745 (Assessor)
Description: In the front elevation the central doorway is flanked by fluted pilasters which support an entablature. The four-panel door is under a four-light transom. There are two 6-over-6 windows on each side. A small, tall central brick chimney rises from the ridge line. A bow window on the west is balanced by a small wing on the east, with a long ell extending to the rear.
Significance: The house is a good example of a one-story Colonial structure which continues to exhibit the five-bay central-doorway central-chimney configuration associated with the building type. The many alterations and additions have not diminished the original concept. The 1869 atlas identifies the house with T. Daley's name.
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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Address: 43 Hodge Road
Contemporary Building Name: 43 Hodge Road
Historic Building Name: A. Huntley House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1840 (Baber)
Description: The doorway is recessed in the easternmost of three bays in the front elevation, which has gable end toward the street in the temple mode of the Greek Revival style. The door, which is approached by a large stone block, is flanked by narrow four-paned sidelights and plain pilasters under a transom of four narrow panes. A frieze and well-molded cornice surmount the transom. Above, the eaves of the main roof return briefly. The horizontal window in the gable end is glazed with paired vertical muntins and high and low single horizontal muntins. Fascias run below the raking eaves. On the side elevations there are two 6-over-6 windows at each floor and a fascia or frieze under the eaves. The ell is almost as large as the main block.
Significance: On the 1869 atlas the house is associated with the name A. Huntley. It is a good example of the Greek Revival style because of the proportions and mass, which are simple, bold, and well-related to one another without being overpowering. Some excellent specific Greek Revival features remain, such as the recessed doorway, the unusually narrow side and transom lights, and the attic window with characteristic plaid glazing. Other details appear to have been lost to the siding, possibly including corner pilasters and main cornice and frieze. The frieze continues in place on the side elevations.
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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Address: 54 Hodge Road
Contemporary Building Name: 54 Hodge Road
Historic Building Name: Hodge House; W. I. Hills House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1780-1820 (Baber), 1700 (Assessor)
Description: The broad front elevation of the low house is divided into five bays with central door, whose surround is covered by the asbestos siding, and 6-over-6 sash. Small rectangular windows are located under the eaves in each bay. A partial shed dormer occupies the center of the front roof slope, with a slender chimney rising behind it. A second exterior chimney is on the north side elevation.
Significance: Since the name of the road is Hodge and the name of the owner of the house is Hodge, it is presumed that the Hodge family has lived here for generations, but the 1869 atlas may associate the property with the name W. I. Hills. The house is old, as evidenced by the low windows located close under the eaves on the north side elevation, which suggest that the Assessor's date of 1700 may be reasonably accurate. A house on the 1869 atlas carrying the name W. I. Hills may be the Hodge House, but on the map it appears to be too far north. In addition to having the features of the eaves windows, the house is significant for its large size (35 feet in breadth), and the fact that it has not been added onto, having no ell, no wing. The chief alteration has been the addition of the front shed dormer. Some trim details may still be in place under the siding.
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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Address: 27 Isleib Road
Contemporary Building Name: 27 Isleib Road
Historic Building Name: H. Beindhammer House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Georgian
Date constructed: 1748 (Baber/owner), 1764 (Assessor)
Description: The H. Beindhammer House occupies a commanding position close to the highway on both its front and east elevations, at the point where Isleib Road changes its direction from north and west. The front elevation is divided into five bays of 8-over-12 windows and central doorway. The batten door on strap hinges under five-light transom is surrounded by a molding with eared architrave. Flanking pilasters carry up through the architrave to support the cornice above. Corner boards define the profile of the house. On the west elevation, there are two 8-over-12 windows at first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic. The property consists of 18 acres.
Significance: The H. Beindhammer house is so identified on the 1869 atlas. It has recently been rehabilitated, now having 8-over-12 windows rather than the 6-over-6 sash reported by Baber (1978 inventory), and a batten door rather than a six panel door. The general level of maintenance is ambitious. If the elaborate doorway with its slender proportions is original, the house is an early example of the Georgian style.
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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Address: 30 Isleib Road
Contemporary Building Name: 30 Isleib Road
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1924 (owner), 1923 (assessor)
Description: The unconventional setting of the house is set off by the drive into the property which runs diagonally to the northeast from the corner of Isleib Street. The overall appearance is one of the starkness and age, dramatized by an area of the wall where the asbestos siding is missing to reveal the original clapboards, perhaps where a front porch once joined the front wall. The front elevation is divided into four asymmetrical bays in a 1-2-1 rhythm. The door is in the west central location. Windows on the front are 4-over-2. The vertical panes of the upper sash are glazed in an elongated diamond pattern with small diamonds at the top. Other windows are 2-over-2. Fenestration on the west side elevation is two windows at first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic.
Significance: A house at about this location is identified on the 1869 atlas with the name O. Dickinson, but the owner and assessor agree that this building was constructed c. 1923. It is significant architecturally because of the fact the front elevation has four bays, not evenly spaced. See 55, 93, and 141 Chapman Street fro four-bay Colonial houses, but this house is with similar fenestration pattern is Colonial Revival. The window-glazing patterns of 2-over-2 and diamond panes reflect 19th century influence which carried over into the first quarter of the 20th century. The diamond glazing is one of the few examples of Queen Anne-style detail in Marlborough. The owner states that the house was built out of old lumber for staff housing on a large grape orchard property.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 57-59 Johnson Road
Contemporary Building Name: 57-59 Johnson Road
Historic Building Name: E. Bolles House, Gustav Johnson House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial / Federal
Date constructed: 1815 (Baber)
Description: The E. Bolles House presents an important presence from its site above the road, behind the stone wall and picket fence. The rhythm of the five bays in the front elevation is 2-1-2. The central front doorway is framed by pilasters supporting a broken-bed pediment which surrounds a semi-elliptical leaded fanlight. Windows are 2-over-2 except for small 6-over-6 attic sash in the gable ends. A course of small dentils runs under the front eaves. The chimney in the center of the roof ridge is small in plan and tall. The Keith form (WPA inventory, 1935) reports a Dutch oven in the rear ell, suggesting that it may be the original part of the house. The interior of the main block, according to Keith, has fine finishes, including beaded columns and dentil course on one front room fireplace surround.
Significance: The E. Bolles house is significant architecturally because it is a good example of a Colonial five-bay structure with the Adamsque feature of a semi-elliptical fanlight. This feature is associated with the Federal style, which was in vogue from c. 1780 to c. 1820, an era consistent with the date of the house. The house is also different from many because of the imposing landscaping of wall, fence, and trees which enhances its elevated site. The stone and wrought-iron fence appears to be quite similar to the fence at the Mosely Talcott House made by William Richmond (see 5 Cheney Road). The house is identified with the name E. Bolles on the 1869 atlas. It was later owned by Gustav Johnson, for whom the road is named. Gustav Johnson's daughter, Ethel Fowler, served as Marlborough Town Clerk until her recent retirement.
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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Address: 15 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 15 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: H.D. Barrows House, Store
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber)
Description: 15 Jones Hollow Road is a Greek Revival house with pedimented gable end toward the street. Four fluted Doric columns are at the front of a full-width recessed concrete front porch, which is approached by four concrete risers. The columns, without entablature, support the building's second story. Behind the columnar screen, the front door with sidelights and wide flanking pilasters under a four-pane transom is to the left (south). Two floor-to-ceiling 6-over-9 windows with blinds are to the right. At the second floor the lintels of the two windows abut the cornice, without architrave or frieze. The front of the second floor, over the porch, is defined by cornerboards. The cornice is embellished with a course of small pointed drop pendants or arrows, as are the raking cornices. The raking cornices have friezes. A rectangular window is in the center of the shingled tympanum. A central brick chimney rises from the ridge while a second exterior chimney is located toward the rear on the south elevation; both are corbeled.
Significance: 15 Jones Hollow Road displays many architectural features characteristic of the Greek Revival style, but in an unusual juxtaposition. The rectangular mass with gable end to street is the classical temple form. The three-bay first-floor elevation, fluted Doric columns, flanking doorway pilasters, and gable end tympanum with rectangular window all fit the style. The recessed front porch, however, is odd, as is the absence of entablature above the four columns and below the pediment cornice. The 1869 atlas shows two structures at about the location of 15 Jones Hollow Road. The southerly building is labeled "H.D. Barrows," the northerly one "Store". In the Directory for the atlas plate, H.D. Barrows is listed as "Merchant". Probabilities are that the store was a small building in the side yard of the house (presumably the present building). Nevertheless, it is tempting to offer the conjecture that the odd recessed front porch of the house somehow reflects the earlier presence of shop windows.
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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Address: 131 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: HRS Farm
Historic Building Name: A. B. Latham House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1780-1820 (Baber), 1783 (Assessor)
Description: The low mass of the A.B. Latham House hugs the high ground behind the tall stone retaining wall at road's edge. In the five-bay front elevation 12-over-8 windows flank the central doorway. Fenestration in the side elevations is two 12-over-8 sash at the first floor and two, closer together, at the second. Central chimney rises from the roof ridge. The ell features small rectangular frieze windows under its eaves, indicating that the ell dates from not later than the early 19th century. Outbuildings are devoted to the care of horses.
Significance: The A.B. Latham House is a good example of a one-story Colonial building exhibiting the typical features of central doorway and chimney with five-bay front elevation associated with the type. Often additions to such houses are 20th century construction, but in this case it appears that the ell dates from the turn of the 19th century. The 1869 atlas includes two houses in bracketed ownership of A.B. Latham, 113 Jones Hollow Road and the neighbor next north, which is no longer standing.
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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Address: 180 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 180 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: Bigelow House, Roland Buell – I.R. Buell House, Robert Lord House
Present Use: Farmhouse
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1780 (Baber), 1788 (Keith), 1765 (Assessor)
Description: The great breadth of the Buell House, 40 feet, is extended for another eight feet by a shed-roofed side porch on the south elevation. The five bays of the front elevation are placed asymmetrically; the door is off center to the south with the flanking windows farther apart on the north than on the south. At the second floor there are three windows, with the central window off center to the north. Window glazing is 2-over-2. The chimney also is off center to the north. The roof is steeply pitched. The shed-roofed porch on the south side has a railing of pickets held by hand rail and bottom rail. Two large two-story barns are located south of the house, across the driveway. The barns abut one another. The property is 59 1/2 acres.
Significance: The Buell Farm is significant because, at 59 1/2 acres, it is one of the few remaining working farms in Marlborough. The large barns indicate a substantial farming operation. The presence of a tractor in front of the house in the picture is symbolic. The odd fenestration of the front elevation of the house makes it difficult to discern the original configuration. The 1869 atlas shows both names for the house, I. R. Buell and Roland Buell.
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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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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Address: 214 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 214 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: Jennie Isleib
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1780 (sign on house)
Description: The 1 1/2-story central-chimney house is a compact structure. At the first floor, the central doorway is flanked by tow 6-over-6 windows. At the second floor, six-pane windows are above the first-floor windows, but there is no window over the door. The second-floor windows are under the eaves in an area often defined by a frieze, which here may have been lost to the siding. The north side elevation has three windows at the first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic. The ell is lower than the main block, but is on a foundation of massive stone blocks, indicating it is old if not original. The property consists of 33 1/2 acres.
Significance: 214 Jones Hollow Road is one of the relatively few 1 1/2-story colonial houses in Marlborough (see also 54 Hodge Road). It appears to have its original framing, dimensions, and mass intact, possibly including the ell. The siding and probably the sash have been altered; for instance, it is doubtful that the frieze windows originally were six-pane; three larger panes seems more likely. In this case the vinyl siding was applied without destroying the character-defining historic features and relationships of the house. The house does not show on the 1869 atlas, a circumstance that is unexpected. It may be that one of the two Fuller names near the dot for 195 Jones Hollow Road actually belongs with this house, but the dot is missing.
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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Address: 255 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 255 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: North School
Present Use: Residence
Historic Use: School House
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: 1900 (Assessor)
Description: The gable end of the small house faces the street. A tripartite picture window is its chief feature. There is a 1-over-1 window in the south side elevation in front of the south wing. Both small wings have shed roofs. The front door is in the south wing, along with two horizontal windows.
Significance: The former North School is not well-preserved, having lost its identity as a building type. It is historically significant because it was a one-room schoolhouse.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 255 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 255 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: North School
Present Use: Residence
Historic Use: School House
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: 1900 (Assessor)
Description: The gable end of the small house faces the street. A tripartite picture window is its chief feature. There is a 1-over-1 window in the south side elevation in front of the south wing. Both small wings have shed roofs. The front door is in the south wing, along with two horizontal windows.
Significance: The former North School is not well-preserved, having lost its identity as a building type. It is historically significant because it was a one-room schoolhouse.
Sources: Ransom, David F. Historic and Architectural Resources Survey: Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Schwarzmann, Vi. “History of the Marlborough Schools,” in Know Your Schools, Marlborough, CT: September, 1970. A report published under the direction of the Principal of the Marlborough Schools.
Fowler, Janet. A History of Education in a Small New England Town—Marlborough, Connecticut. Storrs, CT: I.N. Thut Education Center, The University of Connecticut; c.1984.
Notes: An 1869 district map, locates the North School on the southwest corner of West Road and Jones Hollow Road, and a source suggests that this schoolhouse was operated on this site until 1900. South of this site exists a different structure now known as the North School. This is the structure described above, and was open until 1932, when it was abandoned.

Address: 294 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 294 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: J.S. Jones House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Guest house for corporate visitors
Architectural style: Georgian
Date constructed: 1740-1880 (Baber), 1748 (Assessor), c. 1810 (Keith)
Description: J.S. Jones House is a large building with high steeply pitched roof. In the five-bay front elevation the central doorway, which is approached by a large granite slab, is flanked in a 2-1-2 rhythm by 12-over-8 windows which have flat surrounds. Each leaf of the double door has three transom lights. The doorway's pilasters stand on paneled pedestals to support a full entablature of architrave, frieze, and flat cornice. A dentil course runs under the cornice. In the south side elevation, two large stone blocks form steps leading up to a door near the front at the first floor, which has a plain flat surround but splayed lintel. The door is followed by two windows at the first floor. The second floor has two windows above those on the first. One window occupies the attic gable end. The house is covered with weathered gray wooden clapboards. A plain flat skirt board runs below the clapboards. The wood-shingled roof also is weathered to a gray. There is a large central chimney.
Significance: The J.S. Jones House is a good example of the Georgian style, and , if the front doorway is original, is an early example. The well-developed doorway of pilasters on pedestals and full entablature is the classical revival feature which qualifies the otherwise Colonial-style house for designation as an example of the Georgian style. The Georgian style developed in the mid-18th century, about when this house was built. The house on the exterior appears to be generally well-preserved. Such features as stone steps, five-bay fenestration, clapboards and wooden shingles are still in place. The long ell may be an alteration. Keith (WPA inventory, 1935) states that the house was the home of the grandfather of Admiral George Dewey, of Spanish-American War fame. The 1869 atlas associates the name J.S. Jones with the house. The street was named after Samuel Finley Jones, who for 50 years before the Revolutionary War was the largest landowner in the area. He was known as "the money king".
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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Address: 305 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 305 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: O. Goodrich House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1730 (Assessor)
Description: The small house exhibits the standard Colonial front elevation of five bays with central doorway and central chimney. Windows, altered, are 2-over-2. The added small front porch is supported by turned posts under a hipped roof in the Queen Anne style. There is also a small added three-sided bay on the south elevation.
Significance: The O. Goodrich House is relatively plain and has 19th century alterations. Its chief element of significance is its age. If the Assessor is correct that it was built in 1730, the building is probably one of the oldest houses still standing in Marlborough. The 1869 atlas designates the location with the name O. Goodrich.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 367 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 367 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: S. Root House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial / Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1780-1820 (Baber), 1810 (Assessor)
Description: The distinctive feature of the S. Root House five-bay front elevation is the row of frieze windows at the second floor under the low eaves. First-floor windows are 6-over-1, while the second-floor sash are three-pane. Chimney rises from the center of the roof ridge. On the east elevation fenestration is two 6-over-1 windows at both first and second floors. On the west elevation a gable-roofed one-story wing is set back behind a first-floor double window. The wing connects with w shed-roofed ell across the back of the house, creating a wraparound effect.
Significance: The S. Root House is a good example of 1 1/2 story Colonial-style house, of which there are few in Marlborough. The central door and chimney are slightly off-center to the west. The small rectangular windows under the eaves are a feature often found in a frieze of a Greek Revival house. The 6-over-1 windows are replacements, while the gable-roofed wing and shed-roofed ell probably were added at different later dates. The 1869 atlas associates the name S. Root with the house. The presence of the small windows under the eaves, a Greek Revival feature, suggests the house was built toward the end of 1780-1820 range, or approximately at the Assessor's date of 1810, because the Greek Revival style came into popularity early in the 19th century.
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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Address: 396 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 396 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: S.T. Verguson House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1740-1780 (Baber), 1670 (Assessor), 17th Century (owner)
Description: The S. T. Verguson House has a central doorway flanked by tripartite picture windows, each of which presumably replaces two original window openings. On the north side elevation there are small windows under the front and back eaves of the steeply pitched roof. There are two brick chimneys, one in the center of the roof and another on the north side elevation. The property is 18 1/5 acres.
Significance: The house is significant architecturally because of its age and the good state of preservation of its structural components, size, and mass. The presence of the small eaves windows on the north elevation is consistent with the 17th century date assigned to the house. The S.T. Verguson House is a candidate to be one of the half dozen oldest structures still standing in Marlborough. The 1869 atlas shows that the house is the home of S.T. Verguson, whose name is also associated with the mill across the street on the Blackledge River. The house and mill together constitute one of the oldest historic sites in the town. The fact that both mill site and home remain in their original relationship to one another and to their surroundings enhances the significance of the total resource.
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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Address: 5 Lake Road, aka 256 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 5 Lake Road, aka 256 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: E. Lord House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial / Saltbox
Date constructed: c. 1765 (Baber), 1750 (Assessor)
Description: The five-bay fenestration of the front elevation is articulated in the 2-1-2 rhythm. Windows surrounding the central door are 6-over-6. At the roof line the heavy fascia and crown molding briefly return on the side elevation. The central chimney is stone. On the south side elevation, first floor, the sequence of openings from the front is two 6-over-6 windows, door, and window, while the second floor has two 6-over-6s, and the third one 6-over-6. The roof slopes down to one-story level at the rear, forming the saltbox configuration. S. Soucy (then President of the Marlborough Historical Society) notes that: "When the roof was rebuilt a few years ago, the rear sloped section was removed and revealed a gambrel roof underneath. When the gambrel roof was removed, a cape roof appeared under that. As the building was expanded to its present saltbox shape, the old roofs were left intact underneath. This house is shown as the Dayton House on the 1747 map."
Significance: The E. Lord House is a good example of an 18th century saltbox is a fine state of historic preservation. It is one of the few saltboxes in Marlborough. It is one of the few historic houses in Marlborough with a stone chimney (see also 55 Chapman Road, both chimneys appear to have been recently re-laid). Its prominent site, elevated on the corner location on a busy street, makes it one of the more prominent historic houses in Marlborough. The 1869 atlas shows the name E. Lord as owner of the house. Marlborough Mill properties were next door to the north and across North Main Street.
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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Address: 27-29 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 27-29 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: G.E. Hall House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: 1880 (Assessor)
Description: The fenestration of the front elevation consists of three evenly spaced 2-over-2 windows, with the front door located between the first and second bays from the north. Three evenly spaced windows are at the second floor. The central chimney is offset to the south, while there is a second chimney on the exterior of the north wall. On the south side elevation, evergreens obscure view of a shed-roofed porch, which is in front of a small shed-roofed set-back wing. The north side elevation has two 2-over-2 windows at the first floor, two at the second, and one in the attic. The ell beyond is shed-roofed.
Significance: The overall effect of the house is plain, perhaps due in part to the aluminum siding which may obscure identifying architectural details. The odd position of the front door suggests that the house may have undergone extensive alterations in the past. The 1869 atlas identifies the house with the name G.E. Hall. The atlas directory lists "G.E. Hall, Grist and Saw Mill." A "Single Mill, S & G Mill" is located by the atlas on the Blackledge River just north of Hebron Road. A house near the mill also carries the name G.E. Hall. The implication is that G.E. Hall was a mill owner with residence in the town center and a second house near the mill. A difficulty with this interpretation is that the Assessor's date for construction of the house is 1880; it may be older, but the siding conceals any evidence.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 34 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 34 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: Congregational Church Parsonage
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1850 (Baber), 1750 (Assessor)
Description: The gable-end front elevation of the Parsonage has two 6-over-6 windows and a door at the first floor. The door is fitted into the small space between the south window and the nearby cornerboard. Basically, the Parsonage is a two-bay house. The front doorway, otherwise plain, is embellished with a frieze and heavy bold cornice. The second floor has two windows. The eaves return slightly below the level of the second-floor caps. There is no window in the gable end above. The raking eaves have no fascias. A small brick chimney rises from the center of the roof ridge. On the south side elevation windows at the second floor are 6-over-3, in conformity with the fact the house is less than a full two stories high. A fascia runs under the eaves on the side elevations. A long narrow wing/ell is set back on the south side elevation. Its central front door is flanked by single windows. On the north side elevation of the main block there are two windows at both first and second floors.
Significance: The Congregational Church Parsonage is one of the few 1 3/4-story houses in Marlborough, perhaps the only Greek Revival house of the description. The Greek Revival style is assigned to the house because of the frieze and cornice over the front door and because of the eaves returns, which suggest a gable-end pediment. The style designation is tenuous because of the absence of any confirming normal Greek Revival features, such as pilasters, cornice with frieze, pediment, and rectangular window in the gable end. Age of the wing/ell is not known but if by odd chance it is the older original part of the Parsonage, such circumstance would be consistent with the Assessor's date of 1750 for construction of the house.
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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Address: 41 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 41 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: E. Coleman House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1850 (Baber), 1830 (Assessor)
Description: The three-bay gable end of the E. Coleman House faces the street. The doorway in the south bay is framed by plain pilasters, frieze, and flat cornice. Windows have replacement 12-over-12 sash in flat surrounds. The mass of the house is defined by corner boards. There is no cornice or pediment, while the gable end is occupied by a square 12-pane window. Raking eaves, which do not return, have fascias and project with bold crown moldings. A brick chimney rises from the center of the roof. The wing set back to the south has a door near the house followed by a window and a shed-roofed side porch. Grade falls off sharply to the rear, exposing a high basement stone wall of large blocks laid in a distinctive pattern of alternating wide and narrow courses.
Significance: The E. Coleman House falls under the Greek Revival-style umbrella because of its mass, shape, three-bay temple-front facade, and characteristic doorway surround. The absence of corner pilasters and pediment are negative contributions to the stylistic designation. The projection of the raking eaves suggests Italianate influence, possible about 1850 but not in 1830. The house may be transitional Greek Revival/Italianate. The 1869 atlas associates the name E. Coleman with the property. Sandra Soucy (then President of the Marlborough Historical Society) notes that: "...the E. Coleman house...is also known as the Effie Buell house. Miss Buell served Marlborough as a nurse, often when there was no resident physician. She is quoted, 'I was in on the births, and in on the deaths.' She lived 97 years, and died in 1961."
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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Address: 43-53 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Country Barn
Historic Building Name: Cow Barn
Present Use: Retail Store
Historic Use: Cow Barn
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: 1880 (Assessor)
Description: The barn, which faces north, is a component in a grouping of connected buildings which forms one of several free-standing clusters in the retail complex. A wide shed-roofed porch runs across the front of the barn, approached by a single full-width step. The porch roof is an extension of the main roof's front slope and is supported by square posts. The central entrance is flanked by large windows of 28 small panes (7x4). On the interior, finishes are natural wood and framing is exposed. Fenestration on the rear elevation is a batten door and three six-pane windows. The components of the grouping attached to the cow barn to the west are less than 50 years old. The attached component to the east is a two-story gable-roofed historic barn with two six-pane windows at the first floor, two 6-over-6 windows at the second floor, and an attic window of four panes. The east side elevation, toward the road, has one window of 44 small panes (11x4). The next attached section of the rambling structure, to the rear (south), is less than 50 years old, but is followed by a small 12' x 22' one-story gable-roofed historic barn of vertical wood siding with an oriel of small panes in its eastern wall, under a loading door. There are two 12-over-12 windows on the south elevation.
Significance: The cow barn and its attached components play a roll in creating the effective overall rural and Colonial/Colonial Revival ambience of this large retail complex. While the historic buildings have been altered, especially by the introduction of Colonial Revival windows of multiple small-panes, painted white, this building complex and the site as a whole are successful in achieving an attractive setting related to historic precedent.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 139-143 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 139-143 North Main Street
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Queen Anne
Date constructed: c. 1885 (Baber)
Description: The large house is L-shaped, with a strong front cross gable in the main block presenting a prominent feature. The two-story wing that completes the L shape is set back to the south, with a porch in the angle of the L. The central entrance of the main block is protected by an elaborate front porch which is approached by broad wooden steps. Paired posts of reverse taper rise from a picket railing to jog-sawn brackets which support the spindle frieze of the porch's shed rood. The shed roof is interrupted by a cross gable in the form of a pediment whose tympanum is covered with imbricated shingles. The front door is set in boldly molded casing under a blocky head piece with circular pattern. The upper half of the door is glazed with a large pane surrounded by a border of 16 small panes of colored glass. Paired 2-over-2 windows flank the porch at both first and second floors. Abutting the second-floor window lintels a broad band of narrow vertical boards makes a fascia or false cornice which connects the ends of the raking eaves of the gable above. The raking eaves project, and are covered with elaborate bargeboards displaying a raised pattern of small parallel panels. The gable end is covered with imbricated shingles, repeating the treatment of the porch gable end, and is the location of a single window. The end (side) gables of the main roof repeat the elaborate details of the front gable. The shed-roofed front porch of the wing has been enclosed and has been extended forward with a glazed bay. There is a second front door at the north end of the bay, close to the main block. The south gable end of the wing repeats the gable ends of the main block. A further shed-roofed wing/ell continues from the rear (southwest) corner of the wing. No chimney is visible. The owner, who has lived in the house since 1952, reports that the present mid-19th century structure envelopes a Colonial saltbox. Mortise-and-tenon joins are visible in the basement. The interior was altered in 1952 at which time fireplaces were eliminated. The wooden mantels are stored in the basement. More recently, the interior has been remodeled into three apartments.
Significance: 139-143 North Main Street is an excellent example of the Queen Anne style, in a good state of preservation. The house incorporates many characteristic Queen Anne features, including asymmetrical plan, a variety of wall materials and textures, intricate details such as the posts in reverse taper, imbricated shingles, and paneled bargeboards. The house is unusual, perhaps unique, in Marlborough.
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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Address: 148 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 148 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: E. Cook House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Italianate
Date constructed: c. 1850 (Baber), 1884 (Assessor)
Description: The main block of the L-shaped house faces west toward the street, with its wing of two sections extending to the south. The front door is in the southernmost of the three bays of the main block. The door is flanked by plain pilasters surmounted by small consoles which hold a heavy flat cornice. The 1-over-1 windows of the first and second floors have slightly peaked lintels. A pair of narrow windows is at attic level under a small pierced triangular brace in the gable peak. The north side elevation has two windows at both first and second floors. Corner boards are narrow. In the first section of the wing the gable roof is parallel with the street, set back behind a shed-roofed porch supported by slender square posts and curved sawn brackets. The porch roof has a cross gable near the main block which bears a raised half sunburst. Windows are 6-over-1 with flat lintels. The roof of the second section of the wing is gable end to street with three windows at first floor and paired windows at second floor, all having peaked lintels. The arrangement of the fenestration and the detailing are similar to those of the main block, except for the glazing pattern which is 6-over-1 as found in the first section of the wing.
Significance: The main block of the E. Cook House appears to be transitional Greek Revival/Italianate in architectural style. The orientation of gable end toward street, with three bays, is characteristic of the Greek Revival, but also carried over into the Italianate. The heavy flat cornice over the front door, the peaked window caps, and the narrow paired attic windows are representative of the Italianate style which, overall, seems to be the best designation for the house. As a complication, however, the decorative brace in the gable peak and the sunburst pattern over the porch of the wing suggest the Queen Anne style. The second section of the wing, which is closely patterned after the main block, may be a late 20th century addition. The house identified on the 1869 atlas with the initials may be this building.
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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Address: 161 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 161 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: F.W. Coleman House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Georgian
Date constructed: 1760-1899 (Baber), 1749 (Assessor), c. 1820-1830 (Keith)
Description: The broad front elevation of the F.W. Coleman House is divided into five bays in the traditional 2-1-2 rhythm. Windows are 2-over-2. There is a four-light transom over the door enclosed within an eared architrave. A brick chimney of modest size in plan but of good height rises from the center of the ridge line. The roof is low pitched. On the south side elevation a three-sided oriel has been added at the first floor while there are two windows at the second floor. The attic window is half round. A long narrow ell runs back from the center of the rear elevation. The angles between the ell and the main block are occupied by shed-roofed infills.
Significance: The F. W. Coleman House is a good example of a colonial-era house which qualifies for the Georgian style because of the classical eared-architrave feature of the doorway, assuming the feature is original. The attic fanlight window would be more convincing if it were semi-elliptical rather than half round, as it is. The window and the low roof pitch raise the possibility of alterations were made to the roof framing at some time. The 1869 atlas shows two Coleman houses at about this location. 161 North Main Street may be the F.W. Coleman House.
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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Address: 205 North Main
Contemporary Building Name: 205 North Main
Historic Building Name: D.A. Brown House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1780-1820 (Baber), 1812 (Assessor)
Description: The front elevation of the D.A. Brown House is divided into five bays by central doorway and nine windows, four at the first floor and five at the second. The first-floor sash are 6-over-6 while at the second floor they are rectangular horizontal three-pane. The doorway is framed by plain pilasters under full entablature of architrave, frieze, and delicate molded cornice. The corners of the house support slender plain pilasters, while the horizontal windows are placed in a frieze. The eaves return slightly on the side elevations. A central rectangular chimney with its long dimension front to back rises from the center of the ridge line. There is a single window on the south side elevation at both first and second floors. In the ell the gable roof is oriented at right angles to the main block's roof ridge.
Significance: The D.A. Brown House is a good example of a five-bay 1 1/2 story Colonial house. It exhibits the characteristic five-bay front elevation, with small windows in the second floor frieze under the eaves. The building appears to be in a good state of preservation. For a similar house in Marlborough, see 367 Jones Hollow Road. The 1869 atlas shows the house with the name D.A. Brown.
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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Address: 222 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 222 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: L. Alger House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1860 (Baber)
Description: The L. Alger House is a small L-shaped building, with one-story entrance porch located in the angle of the L. The narrow gable end facing the street, to the north, has paired 2-over-2 windows at first floor, a single window at the second. Entrance to the house is through the porch, to the south, which is now enclosed but may have been open originally. Behind the porch, the rear section of the L terminates in a gable end facing south, to which a glass atrium has been added. The gazebo is in the back yard southeast of the house.
Significance: The L. Alger House is a vernacular building without stylistic architectural features, but its original mass and form read clearly after more than 100 years. Stylistic features may have existed before the present siding was added. It is a modest, plain, straightforward building. Interest is added by the presence of the gazebo, one of the few such structures in Marlborough. In the 1869 atlas the property is marked with the name L. Alger.
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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Address: 231 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: Charles Hall Gallery, Marlborough Arts Center and Museum
Historic Building Name: Dance Hall, Hall’s Package Store
Present Use: Gallery / Arts Center
Historic Use: Package store, dance hall, recreational hall
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: 1920 (Assessor)
Description: There are two doors in the front gable end of the building, facing the street. The original doorway is centered. It has flush casing, boarded-up sidelights, and what appears to be the original door with square glazing over four horizontal panels. A second door adjoins to the north, indicating the interior was divided into two parts, as there are two boarded-up shop windows. An attic window is in the gable end. On the north side elevation, a shed-roofed porch runs the depth of the building. The porch roof is supported by posts which are small tree trunks, in a state of disrepair.
Significance: 231 Main Street is an example of a commercial building, one of the few in this survey. It is without architectural stylistic features, except for the rustic posts of the side porch, which probably are added. The Assessor's field card states that it is a former package store, while Baber (1978 Inventory) refers to earlier use as a dance, recreation hall, without further details.
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.
Notes: In 1999, the Marlborough Arts Center and Museum purchased the property, and in 2004, moved the building back from the road, and began renovations. The assessor now gives the property a construction date of 2005.

Address: 232 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 232 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: L. Alger House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Vernacular / Queen Anne
Date constructed: c. 1850 (Baber), 1840 (Assessor)
Description: One gable end of the L-shaped house faces the street. There are two 6-over-6 windows in both first and second floors, offset to the north. The gable peak above is covered with imbricated shingles. Front entrance is on the side, toward the front of the south elevation of the section. The doorway there is under a hipped-roof hood. The second section of the ell corresponds to a wing set back to the south. One brick chimney rises from the exterior of the north wall, another from the center of the set-back section of the house.
Significance: 232 North Main Street is a plain house without architectural stylistic features, save for the imbricated shingles on the front gable end, which establish a relationship to the Queen Anne style. The offset of the front windows to the north, instead of the customary even spacing, is off, suggesting that alterations may have offurred which are not immediately recognizable. Baber (1978 Inventory) states that 232 North Main Street is mill housing, without further elaboration, which is possible because the date of construction corresponds to the years when the textile mill was nearby to the north. On the 1869 atlas the house carries the name L. Alger.
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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Address: 236 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 236 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: A. Rating House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber and Assessor)
Description: The front elevation of the house is the three-bay gable end, with door to the south. The doorway consists of flanking pilasters supporting an architrave, wide frieze, and flat cornice. The two windows to the north are 6-over-6. In the second floor, above, there is a pair of 6-over-6 windows. On the south side elevation, first floor, window sequence is one 6-over-6 sash followed by a tall eight-pane window, then the added one-story ell. At the second floor there is a rectangular window under the eaves toward the front, while an added gambrel-roofed dormer is just before the ell.
Significance: The front doorway of pilasters and entablature as part of the three-bay first-floor fenestration articulate the Greek Revival style, as does the eaves window on the south. However, the paired second-floor front windows do not carry out the style, and absence of corner pilasters and pediment further weaken the stylistic designation. Baber (1978 Inventory) states that 236 North Main Street is mill housing, without further elaboration, which is possible because the date of construction corresponds to the years when the textile mill was nearby to the north. The 1869 atlas gives the house the name A. Rating.
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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Address: 265-267 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 265-267 North Main Street
Historic Building Name: I. Allen House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Italianate
Date constructed: 1849 (Assessor)
Description: In the three-bay gable end of the house which faces the street, the doorway to the south is framed by plain pilasters and entablature. The two windows to the north are full-height, 6-over-9, under peaked caps. The three second-floor 6-over-6 windows also have peaked caps. In the attic the peaked cap of the paired small windows is more pronounced than on the lower floors. A one-story wing is set back to the south. A porch in the angle of the L has an almost flat roof supported by turned posts and one sawn bracket. Two small 3-over-3 windows are under the eaves of the ell. Three more of these small windows appear on the north elevation, second floor. The property is 67.8 acres.
Significance: The mixture of Greek Revival and Italianate features in the I. Allen House is consistent with its 1849 date of construction. By this mid-century year, the Greek Revival style was nearing the end of its epoch, while popularity of the Italianate was strong. Accordingly, in this house the plain Greek Revival doorway was present along with the peaked window caps characteristic of the Italianate, the whole in a Greek Revival temple-form three-bay front elevation, but without a Greek Revival pediment. The 1869 atlas (inset, Plate 2) identifies the textile enterprise at the northwest corner of North Main Street and Chapman Road as "Allen & Hanks Cotton Mill, Manf.s of Satinet Warp." The house at 265-267 North Main Street carries the name of I. Allen. E.P. Hanks is next door to the north, while rows of Allen & Hanks houses run along both North Main Street and Chapman Road. Since satinet is a fabric with cotton warp and woolen filling, the term cotton mill is correct for a manufacturer of satinet warp. Such two-fiber fabrics fall under the generic term of union, suggesting that when the mill earlier had been known as Union Mills it was producing a similar product. In the 1869 atlas the name Marlborough Mill is associated with a building on the east side of North Main Street.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 9A-9D South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: Doug’s Barber Shop
Historic Building Name: Buell Farmhouse
Present Use: Mixed commercial offices, barber shop and apartments
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Vernacular / Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1820 (Baber)
Description: The main block has a two-story, three-bay front-facing pedimented, gable end. The doorway is off center with a modern door. Windows are vinyl 6-over-6 double hung sash. There is a one-story wing to the north which is the barber shop and has large picture windows. There is large two-story addition to the south which also has large modern picture windows.
Significance: Although much of the architectural significance is lost, and element of the Greek Revival architectural style is visible in the front facing gable. Historically, the building and surrounding lands belonged to Robert T. Buell. The Buell’s were an early and prominent family in Marlborough. Colonel Elisha Buell owned and operated the Marlborough Tavern which is located across the street and was also a blacksmith. The 1869 atlas depicts an E.C. Warner, blacksmith, as residing in a structure in this vicinity. He also was a post master.
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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Address: 35 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: First Church in Marlborough (Congregational)
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Congregational Church
Present Use: Church
Historic Use: Church
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1842
Description: The Marlborough Congregational Church is a frame Greek Revival-style meetinghouse situated on a hill overlooking South Main Street. The setting is a rural, wooded area with a scattering of both historic and modern buildings nearby. Completed in 1842, the church is a single tall story high and measures 44 by 55 feet in plan, with its narrower end facing the road. The front gable is treated as a pediment, and the main entrance is recessed, centered behind two freestanding fluted Doric columns. The corners of the building are finished with wide, plain pilasters, and a simple entablature runs below the eaves and across the front gable. The entrance has double doors of recessed panels, above which is a row of dentils and a pair of panels where a transom might be; a fluted-board frame with acanthus-leaf carving in the corner blocks surrounds the entrance. Clapboards cover the side and rear elevations of the church, while the facade is finished with matched boards. Side elevations have a single tier of tall triple-hung windows fitted with fifteen-pane sash; the windows have shutters in two parts, with the top parts closed so as to block off the upper third of the windows. A small, square-plan tower located on the front end of the gable roof is made up of four parts: a base with a molded cornice; a belfry stage in which a plain paired pilasters flank a large rectangular louvered opening, about which is a reduced-scale version of the building's main cornice; another stage identical to the belfry but smaller in size; and a shallow dome surmounted by a wrought-iron weather vane in the form of a large arrow. The original bell dating from 1841 became cracked and was replaced by the present bell in 1889. The steeple was toppled during the Hurricane of 1938, which also caused minor damage to the church itself; both were repaired and returned to the original appearance. The church's granite basement story is partly exposed on the side elevations; it was built from stone quarried from the northern part of Marlborough, as were the entry steps that extend across the front of the church. The interior of the building, which is still used fro religious services, is simple, unadorned, and almost entirely original. A small vestibule runs across the rear of the church, where two doors give access to the auditorium; there are two stairways, one leading to the basement and the other to a balcony, which was closed off in 1888. The large open auditorium has plaster walls, a simple wainscot of vertical boards, and a coved ceiling. The pulpit, which is said to incorporate elements from an earlier church's pulpit commissioned in 1754, consists of a slanted desk atop a large base; its front has four fluted engaged columns that carry an entablature decorated with a Greek fret or meander design. The church's painted pews have paneled sides, a dark-stained wooden top rail, and stained curved arm rests terminating in a circular turning. Other original interior woodwork includes paneled doors and simple molded window frames. The seating is arranged as seven rows, with a large center section, two aisles, and smaller side sections. Wainscot railings define two spaces at the front corners of the church for a modern organ (a replacement for an 1860 organ that was originally located in the balcony) and, opposite the organ, seating for the choir. The mid-19th century circular was clock on the rear wall of the auditorium was a gift of Elias Ingraham, a former Marlborough resident and founder of E. Ingraham & Company of Bristol, Connecticut, one of the country’s largest clock and watch manufacturers. Two large wings have been added at the rear of the church. The Crawford Wing, a 2 1/2 story addition dedicated in 1955, extends from the northeast corner; it contains the Christian Education office, a kindergarten, and several other rooms. Extending from the southeast rear corner is a 1-story brick wing housing the Community Fellowship hall; it was built in 1974. Though they are sizable additions, the visual impact of the wings is reduced because they are relatively low in height, with their entrances at the same level as the church's basement.
Significance: The Marlborough Congregational Church is significant primarily as a well-preserved example of early 19th century New England church architecture, epitomizing the Greek Revival style with its fluted columns, pedimented gable, and other elements derived from Classical precedents. In addition, the property is significant for its role in the historical development of Marlborough. The church was the place of religious worship for the town's Congregationalist majority, as well as accommodating town meetings and other community gatherings. The Greek Revival style was a popular choice for New England meetinghouses built in the 1830s and 1840s. Features such as Classical columns, pilasters, cornices, dentils, and acanthus-leaf ornament--all present in the Marlborough Congregational Church--reflected an interest in the architecture and institutions of ancient Greece, which had important democratic connotations for Americans of the early National period. The ideal form for Greek Revival builders was that of the Classical temple. The temple form is closely approximated in the Marlborough Congregational Church through its orientation, with the gable end facing the road; the treatment of the front gable as a pediment; the creation of a recessed entry or "anta" with plainly finished side walls, a common arrangement in Greek temples; and the use of flush boarding on the facade to imitate masonry. The use of Greek Revival elements in this building also indicated that, like contemporary courthouses and academies, the meetinghouse was an important community building deserving of extra stylistic attention. Through its plain rectilinear form, numerous typical Greek Revival details, and simply finished interior, the Marlborough Congregation Church represents a pristine example of the antebellum New England meetinghouse. The pulpit is an especially notable component. Such Greek Revival-style pulpits appear in photographs from the mid-19th century, and the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives presided from a similar desk in the State House at Hartford, which was remodeled in 1837. Because of Victorian-period refurbishings, relatively few of these Greek Revival pulpits and lecterns have survived. The builder of the Marlborough Congregational Church, who along with the congregation's building committee presumably came up with the design, was Augustus Truesdale (c.1807-1870). Truesdale, born in Thompson, Connecticut, was himself the son of a carpenter. He lived for a while in Coventry and Somers before settling in the Rockville section of Vernon, where he is known to have built the first St. Bernard's Church (no longer extant), as well as several large houses for Rockville's millowner families. He passed on the country-builder tradition to his nephew Albert Truesdale, who worked with him for several years in Rockville and became a prominent builder in Killingly, Connecticut, in the lat 19th century. Truesdale received $2600 for building the church, with another $600 paid to A. and S. Brainard for laying the stone for the basement. The present church in Marlborough is the congregation's second meetinghouse. In 1736 fourteen people from the area, then part of the towns of Colchester, Glastonbury, and Hebron, requested permission from the Connecticut General Assembly to establish their own separate place of worship, claiming that travelling a distance of seven or eight miles to attend Sabbath services put a strain on their "weakly wives" and small children. In 1747 the Assembly finally granted the residents permission to form the Ecclesiastical Society of Marlborough, and work began to construct a suitable meetinghouse. In 1803 Marlborough was incorporated as a separate town. As the population increased, Marlborough's first meetinghouse became cramped; it also was thought to be cold and uncomfortable. In January 1841 a subscription was drawn up to raise funds for a new church, and at a March 1841 meeting the congregation voted to establish a building committee. The first services in the new structure were held in August 1841 upon completion of the basement. After several more months of construction, the church was finished and was dedicated on March 16, 1842, with a large number of people participating in the celebration. Although Congregationalism ceased to be Connecticut's state-supported religion after the ratification of the state constitution in 1818, it remained the faith of a large majority of people in most rural Connecticut towns throughout the 19th century. Consequently, Congregational meetinghouses served as symbols of community identity beyond their specifically religious meaning. With Sunday Schools, missionary societies, women's organizations, and other church-related groups, the meetinghouses functioned as social centers for their towns. Moreover, most small rural towns (including Marlborough) held their town meetings and elections in the Congregational meetinghouse well into the 20th century. Not only was this a tradition inherited from colonial times; but also in most towns the Congregational meetinghouse, because of its size and central location, was the only structure that could reasonably accommodate large public meetings.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. May 1993.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
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Address: 36-38 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 36-38 South Main Street
Historic Building Name: Sherman C. Lord House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber)
Description: The three-bay front elevation of the Sherman C. Lord House is oriented toward the street in the manner of the Greek Revival temple form. The recessed doorway in the south bay is flanked by narrow four-pane sidelights and plain pilasters which support plain architrave, frieze, and molded cornice. Windows are 6-over-6. Plain pilasters at the house corners lead up to a frieze that runs around the building under the eaves. A horizontal window in the pediment above is glazed in a plaid pattern with muntins parallel with and near the window casing and central vertical paired muntins. A central chimney rises from the roof ridge. On the north side elevation, first floor, fenestration is two pairs of windows, at the second floor two pairs plus a single window.
Significance: The Sherman C. Lord House features a typical example of a Greek Revival temple-front facade. Its doorway surround, corner pilasters, pediment, and characteristically muntined hortizontal tympanum window follow the mode. The fenestration on the south side elevation may not be original, as paired windows were not used in the Greek Revival and the continuous length of 39 feet, compared with the 23-foot facade, is greater than was customary. Both the 1855 map and 1869 atlas indicate that the house belonged to Sherman C. Lord.
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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Address: 45-47 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 45-47 South Main Street
Historic Building Name: C. Blish House / Mill
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential, Mill?
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: c. 1840 (Baber), 1780 (Assessor)
Description: There is no door in the three-bay front elevation of the house, and the grouping of three windows is off center to the north. Windows are 6-over-6. A horizontal window in the pedimented gable end is now glazed as a pair of four-pane sash. A chimney rises from the north slope of the roof near the center of the ridge. A long veranda under low hipped roof supported by square posts runs along the north side elevation leading back to the main (side) entrance. The long two- and one-story ell to the rear is in two sections. The Assessor's field card reports that there is a cathedral ceiling in one portion of the ell.
Significance: While the C. Blish House has the three bays and pedimented front gable end characteristic of the Greek Revival style, other features do not fit the mode, suggesting the possibility of major alterations to the building in the past. Chief among the non-conforming features is the absence of a front door. While not unprecedented, the absent door usually is found in a wing or toward the front of a side elevation leading from a porch in front of a wing. There is no wing here, and the position of the door at the end of a long veranda seems unlikely to be the original arrangement. The odd location of the central chimney is also an anomaly. The mass of the two-part ell exceeds that usually associated with a residence. The 1869 atlas identifies a building at about this location with the name C. Blish. The 1855 map shows the words "Blish Mill," and indicates it is on a tributary to the Blackledge River, which might have provided the necessary power source for a mill.
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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Address: 61-63 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 61-63 South Main Street
Historic Building Name: H. Dickenson House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1860 (Baber), 1770 (Assessor)
Description: In the gable end of the H. Dickenson House facing the street the eaves return slightly. At the first floor a central front door is flanked by 2-over-2 windows in plain flat casings. There are two of these windows at second-floor level. The door is glazed with a single large pane. The one-story wing to the south is fronted by a shed-roofed porch supported by square posts. A large two-story frame garage to the south (1950) has open bays at the first floor. The property consists of 7.5 acres.
Significance: The H. Dickenson House is a vernacular structure with the Greek Revival-related feature of three-bay facade with gable end toward street. The glazed front door and 2-over-2 windows are late 19th-/early 20th-century details, while the assessor's date of construction is 1770, leaving the actual building year in doubt. Architecturally, the house is without pretense or stylistic features of consequence. The house is included in the survey because of its age. Presumably, historic fabric more than 100 years old is included in the framework. Both the 1855 and the 1869 atlas show a building at approximately this location identified with the name H. Dickenson. Sandra Soucy (then President of the Marlborough Historical Society) states that the house once was owned by William Richmond, who operated a mill (presumably a sawmill or gristmill) nearby and who built the fence at the Moseley Talcott House (see 10 Cooley Road). The Marlborough library was named for his son, William Henry Richmond.
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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Address: 211-213 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 211-213 South Main Street
Historic Building Name: W. E. Jones House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1860 (Baber), 1815 (Assessor)
Description: The 1 3/4-story main block of the house, oriented with gable end toward the street, is the central component of a three-part structure which includes a 1 3/4-story gambrel-roofed wing to the south and a one-story gable-roofed wing to the north. Fenestration of the main block, first floor, is two 6-over-6 windows. At the second floor a central 6-over-6 sash is flanked by very narrow four-pane windows in Palladianesque fashion under a triangular pediment. The cornice and raking cornices of the pediment and the raking eaves of the main roof above are embellished with elaborate pierced bargeboards. A central chimney rises from the roof ridge. Entrance is through a shed-roofed porch, supported by square posts, in front of the south wing. In the second floor of the wing two pedimented wall dormers in the lower slope of the gambrel break through the arris of the two roof slopes. There is a central chimney above. The north wing has a shed-roofed section, which may be an enclosed porch, with door and two 6-over-6 windows in front of a shallow gable-roofed structure with tall central chimney.
Significance: The gable-end-to-street orientation and the shape and mass of the main block suggest the house has its origin in the Greek Revival period. A wing to the south with porch would have been consistent with the style. The present appearance of the house probably took its form after a severe fire which reportedly occurred several decades ago. The Palladianesque window, the Queen Anne-inspired bargeboards, and the south wing's gambrel roof with wall dormers may date from that building campaign. For another house of quite similar plan and architectural features, see 14 Jones Hollow Road. The 1869 atlas shows a house at the location identified with the name W.E. Jones.
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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Address: 351 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 351 South Main Street
Historic Building Name: Carrier House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Georgian
Date constructed: 1780-1820 (Baber), 1730 (Assessor)
Description: The five bays in the front elevation of the Carrier House are arranged in a 2-1-2 rhythm. The molded front door surround features an eared architrave. Windows are 6-over-6. The main block of the house appears to be one room deep. Twin chimneys are just inside the end elevations. The large ell, under gambrel roof, is reported to be the original part of the house. Windows in the ell are 6-over-6. The property consists of 11 acres.
Significance: The Carrier House main block is a good example of a Georgian house (post 1750), so designated because of the twin chimneys, the central hallway they imply, and the classical detailing of the front doorway. The gambrel-roofed ell is said to be earlier. The siting of the house high on a bank protected by two-level stone retaining walls is dramatic. The 1855 map shows the name A. Carrier at about this location, while in the 1869 atlas the name is J. Carrier.
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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Address: 5 South Road
Contemporary Building Name: 5 South Road
Historic Building Name: Lord House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1850 (Baber), 1868 (Assessor)
Description: There is no door in the front gable end facing South Main Street. Instead, there are two 6-over-6 windows in the first story, with two at the second and one in the attic. Eaves of the gable end return slightly. A central chimney rises from the ridge. On the north side elevation tow 6-over-6s are symmetrically placed at both first and second floors. The one-story wing set back to the south is protected by a shed-roofed porch with turned posts that wraps around the south elevation. The principal entrance to the main block is through a door at the north end of the porch. There are small rectangular windows under the eaves on the west elevation of the ell.
Significance: The Lord House exhibits the mass and plan of the Greek Revival style with its gable end to the street having eaves returns, its one-story wing, and the rectangular windows under the eaves. In other respects the building is vernacular, perhaps altered, with possible loss to the vinyl siding of architecturally stylistic features. The symmetry of the fenestration on the front and north side elevations and the verticality and large size of the attic window may reflect changes made to the house over time. The 1855 map shows a building at approximately this location with the name D Lord. The same name is used with two other buildings across South Road. In the 1869 atlas, G.T. Lord is associated with this house. In the 20th century it was the home of Florence Lord, state representative, town librarian, and columnist for the "Marlborough Messenger."
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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Address: 124 South Road
Contemporary Building Name: 124 South Road
Historic Building Name: George H. Lord House ?
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial / Colonial Revival?
Date constructed: c. 1900 (Baber), 1937 (Assessor), c. 1820 (Ransom)
Description: In the front elevation, a central door is flanked by paired 1-over-1 windows. At the second floor an added hipped-roof dormer has another 1-over-1 window. The chimney is just inside the south wall. The property is 4 1/2 acres.
Significance: Presumably, the house once had two windows on either side of the front door, which have been altered to the existing paired windows, and there may have been a central chimney (depending on date of construction). As it now exists, the house is with stylistic character-defining architectural features. Both the 1855 map and 1869 atlas identify a house at this location with the name George H. Lord. Accordingly, it may be that this house dates from before 1855, and some part of the original fabric may be present underneath the alterations which now are apparent to the eye. Since the alterations have been substantial, the 20th century construction dates cited above may be the dates of the major alterations.
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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Address: 193 South Road
Contemporary Building Name: Rankl Farm
Historic Building Name:
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / Moorish Revival/ Gothic Revival / Italianate
Date constructed: c. 1860 (Baber), 1890 (Assessor)
Description: In the three-bay gable end toward the street of 193 South Road, the door is in the south (right) bay with two 1-over-1 windows surrounded by flat casings to the left. The door is framed by plain pilasters under an ogee Moorish Revival arch and molded flat cornice. The door is glazed with two arched single panes. The second floor has three 1-over-1 windows while in the attic window interlacing Gothic Revival tracery fills the upper arched sash. There is a small chimney in the rear wall. The one-story wing to the south has a door and two 1-over-1 windows. The large red barn to the south is built with vertical wood siding under gable roof.
Significance: 193 South Road displays the gable end temple form and flanking doorway pilasters of the Greek Revival style plus features of later architectural styles, including the Moorish Revival as evidenced by the ogee arch over the front door. This ogee arch is perhaps the only Marlborough example of its type. The pointed-arched glazing of the attic window stems from the Gothic Revival, while the round-arched glass panels in the front door reflect Italianate influence. The question of whether these later revival-styles features are original or added might be determined by close examination and would have a bearing on determining the date of construction for the house, which does not show on the 1855 map or 1869 atlas. The property is possibly the last operating cattle farm in Marlborough.
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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Address: 256 South Road
Contemporary Building Name: 256 South Road
Historic Building Name: John Bell – P.B. Skinner House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1830 (Baber). 1740 (Assessor)
Description: The three-bay gable end of the house faces the street in the temple mode of the Greek Revival style. The eight-panel door in the north (right) bay has a six-light transom and is flanked by twin narrow pilasters which support an entablature. The two 12-over-12 windows to the south are closer to one another than to the door. Three windows in the second floor repeat the 2-1 rhythm. The raking eaves of the roof's gable end have pronounced returns, forming a triangular area in lieu of a pediment. A triangular attic window is in the center of the gable end. A substantial brick chimney rises from the center of the ridge. The corners of the building are defined by fluted pilasters with corner blocks near the top, supporting architrave and frieze which run along the side elevations of the house. A shed-roofed porch runs in front of (south of) the 1 3/4 story ell. Small horizontal six-pane windows are located about the porch roof, below the eaves of the ell.
Significance: The John Bell-P.B. Skinner House is a good example of the Greek Revival style. Among its several features of the style are its form and mass; the transom, flanking pilasters, and entablature of the doorway; the pattern of fenestration in the front elevation and the ell's eaves windows; corner pilasters; and architrave and frieze of the side elevations. The triangular attic window probably is unique in Marlborough, but does appear in examples of the Greek Revival style elsewhere. A 1967 inventory references John Bell and Julia Bell in connection with the house, but without explanation. The 1855 map and 1869 atlas identify a house at about this location with P.B. Skinner.
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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Address: Intersection of North Main Street, Jones Hollow Road and East Hampton Road / SR 66
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Methodist Church, Library, Town Hall
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Church, library, town hall, meeting space
Architectural Style: Greek Revival, Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1841, 1916, 1935
Description: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Significance: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Giggey, Joseph. History of Marlborough’s Churches and Associated Buildings. Prepared for a Marlborough Historical Society presentation on February 27, 1995. 2nd draft, July 22, 1996
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This image is from a postcard in the collection of the Richmond Memorial Library. It shows the Methodist Church before the 1914 fire.

Address: Intersection of North Main Street, Jones Hollow Road and East Hampton Road / SR 66
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Methodist Church, Library, Town Hall
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Church, library, town hall, meeting space
Architectural Style: Greek Revival, Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1841, 1916, 1935
Description: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Significance: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Giggey, Joseph. History of Marlborough’s Churches and Associated Buildings. Prepared for a Marlborough Historical Society presentation on February 27, 1995. 2nd draft, July 22, 1996
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This image is from a postcard in the collection of the Richmond Memorial Library. This image shows the newly rebuilt Methodist Church in 1916.

Address: Intersection of North Main Street, Jones Hollow Road and East Hampton Road / SR 66
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Methodist Church , Library, Town Hall
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Church, library, town hall, meeting space
Architectural Style: Greek Revival, Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1841, 1916, 1935
Description: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Significance: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Giggey, Joseph. History of Marlborough’s Churches and Associated Buildings. Prepared for a Marlborough Historical Society presentation on February 27, 1995. 2nd draft, July 22, 1996
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This image is from a photograph in the collection of the Richmond Memorial Library, showing the 1935 addition to the front of the church, and the missing bell tower.

Address: Intersection of North Main Street, Jones Hollow Road and East Hampton Road / SR 66
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Methodist Church , Library, Town Hall
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Church, library, town hall, meeting space
Architectural Style: Greek Revival, Colonial Revival
Date constructed: 1841, 1916, 1935
Description: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Significance: The original Methodist Church building had granite stone blocks forming the foundation, with stone steps leading to the sanctuary. The Greek Revival-style meeting house had a pediment front, which recessed to its main entrance guarded with free-standing fluted Doric columns. There were four tall windows on the sides, and a chimney at the rear of the building. The roof was topped with a small square-plan tower containing a belfry with columns. After the 1914 fire, which burned down the original structure to the foundation, the building was rebuilt. Some of the foundation stones were “spoiled by the heat”. A wall was taken down in an old private cemetery (which had been relocated years before) as well as some headstones to repair the foundation. The new structure was simple, with a small front entrance, built into a “bell tower”, with a gable roof. There was one window on each side of the entrance, and five along the sides. In 1935, the bell tower was removed, and a two-story brick addition was added to the front of the building. Large arched windows flanked the entrance, as well as one arch window directly above the doorway. Sometime in the 1970s, a shallow gabled roof replaced the flat roof of the brick addition. The building was abandoned in 1987, and torn down in 1998.
Sources: Baber, David. Capitol Region Council of Governments Historic Resource Survey of Marlborough, 1978.
Giggey, Joseph. History of Marlborough’s Churches and Associated Buildings. Prepared for a Marlborough Historical Society presentation on February 27, 1995. 2nd draft, July 22, 1996
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This c. 1983 image is from a photograph in the collection of the Richmond Memorial Library, showing the 1935 addition to the front of the church, with the 1970s gabled roof. A few years after this photograph, the building would be abandoned.

Address: 35 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: First Church in Marlborough (Congregational)
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Congregational Church
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Meeting House, Church
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1750-1803
Description: The original meeting house sat close to the existing Congregational Church that it replaced. The original building’s frame was 48 feet by 36 feet, and was “covered” and had windows. However, these initial expenses were such that more improvements were not started until 1754 when a pulpit, seats and pews were installed, as well as to “seal” the building up to the windows, and to make two pairs of stairs. In 1755, it was voted by the committee to provide “joice and boards” for the gallery floor. In 1756, a lock and “suitable fastenings” for the meeting house were installed. By 1770, the work on the galleries was completed. Parishioners voted to erect pews for the “body part” of the meeting house, and in 1782 the voted to shingle the front side of the roof. In 1787, the voted to procure pine clapboards to cover the front and two ends of the meeting house, and the following year, the north side was covered with pine clapboards too. In 1789, the inside of the house and the outside doors were painted. In 1792, they plastered the interior walls, and later they painted the exterior and installed a new roof replacing the chestnut shingles with pine shingles, and painted the roof. In 1803, the house was finished, when the congregation voted to pay Eleazer Strong $30 to underpin and lay the steps.
Significance: After 54 years, and several ministers, the Meeting house was completed, just as the town of Marlborough was incorporated (1803). Fortunately, a vivid description was given of the meeting house and its construction that we can gather a description. In 1841 it was decided that a new church was needed, as the current house had become, “cold, uncomfortable and unpleasant as a place of worship.” The house was torn down, and the new church was built within a year, with the opening sermon in 1842. This new church remains standing, just slightly back from where the original house stood.
Sources: Ives, Rev. Joel. “Historical Sermon” in Hall, Mary. Report of the celebration of the Centennial of the incorporation of the Town of Marlborough: August 23rd and 25th, 1903. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. 1904.
Notes: This image is an artist’s concept of the first meeting house, based upon the description in the above history, and other historical documents. Today, a rock monument stands at the site of the original meeting house.

Address: 35 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: First Church in Marlborough (Congregational)
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Congregational Church
Present Use: Church
Historic Use: Church
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1842
Description: The Marlborough Congregational Church is a frame Greek Revival-style meetinghouse situated on a hill overlooking South Main Street. The setting is a rural, wooded area with a scattering of both historic and modern buildings nearby. Completed in 1842, the church is a single tall story high and measures 44 by 55 feet in plan, with its narrower end facing the road. The front gable is treated as a pediment, and the main entrance is recessed, centered behind two freestanding fluted Doric columns. The corners of the building are finished with wide, plain pilasters, and a simple entablature runs below the eaves and across the front gable. The entrance has double doors of recessed panels, above which is a row of dentils and a pair of panels where a transom might be; a fluted-board frame with acanthus-leaf carving in the corner blocks surrounds the entrance. Clapboards cover the side and rear elevations of the church, while the facade is finished with matched boards. Side elevations have a single tier of tall triple-hung windows fitted with fifteen-pane sash; the windows have shutters in two parts, with the top parts closed so as to block off the upper third of the windows. A small, square-plan tower located on the front end of the gable roof is made up of four parts: a base with a molded cornice; a belfry stage in which a plain paired pilasters flank a large rectangular louvered opening, about which is a reduced-scale version of the building's main cornice; another stage identical to the belfry but smaller in size; and a shallow dome surmounted by a wrought-iron weather vane in the form of a large arrow. The original bell dating from 1841 became cracked and was replaced by the present bell in 1889. The steeple was toppled during the Hurricane of 1938, which also caused minor damage to the church itself; both were repaired and returned to the original appearance. The church's granite basement story is partly exposed on the side elevations; it was built from stone quarried from the northern part of Marlborough, as were the entry steps that extend across the front of the church. The interior of the building, which is still used fro religious services, is simple, unadorned, and almost entirely original. A small vestibule runs across the rear of the church, where two doors give access to the auditorium; there are two stairways, one leading to the basement and the other to a balcony, which was closed off in 1888. The large open auditorium has plaster walls, a simple wainscot of vertical boards, and a coved ceiling. The pulpit, which is said to incorporate elements from an earlier church's pulpit commissioned in 1754, consists of a slanted desk atop a large base; its front has four fluted engaged columns that carry an entablature decorated with a Greek fret or meander design. The church's painted pews have paneled sides, a dark-stained wooden top rail, and stained curved arm rests terminating in a circular turning. Other original interior woodwork includes paneled doors and simple molded window frames. The seating is arranged as seven rows, with a large center section, two aisles, and smaller side sections. Wainscot railings define two spaces at the front corners of the church for a modern organ (a replacement for an 1860 organ that was originally located in the balcony) and, opposite the organ, seating for the choir. The mid-19th century circular was clock on the rear wall of the auditorium was a gift of Elias Ingraham, a former Marlborough resident and founder of E. Ingraham & Company of Bristol, Connecticut, one of the country’s largest clock and watch manufacturers. Two large wings have been added at the rear of the church. The Crawford Wing, a 2 1/2 story addition dedicated in 1955, extends from the northeast corner; it contains the Christian Education office, a kindergarten, and several other rooms. Extending from the southeast rear corner is a 1-story brick wing housing the Community Fellowship hall; it was built in 1974. Though they are sizable additions, the visual impact of the wings is reduced because they are relatively low in height, with their entrances at the same level as the church's basement.
Significance: The Marlborough Congregational Church is significant primarily as a well-preserved example of early 19th century New England church architecture, epitomizing the Greek Revival style with its fluted columns, pedimented gable, and other elements derived from Classical precedents. In addition, the property is significant for its role in the historical development of Marlborough. The church was the place of religious worship for the town's Congregationalist majority, as well as accommodating town meetings and other community gatherings. The Greek Revival style was a popular choice for New England meetinghouses built in the 1830s and 1840s. Features such as Classical columns, pilasters, cornices, dentils, and acanthus-leaf ornament--all present in the Marlborough Congregational Church--reflected an interest in the architecture and institutions of ancient Greece, which had important democratic connotations for Americans of the early National period. The ideal form for Greek Revival builders was that of the Classical temple. The temple form is closely approximated in the Marlborough Congregational Church through its orientation, with the gable end facing the road; the treatment of the front gable as a pediment; the creation of a recessed entry or "anta" with plainly finished side walls, a common arrangement in Greek temples; and the use of flush boarding on the facade to imitate masonry. The use of Greek Revival elements in this building also indicated that, like contemporary courthouses and academies, the meetinghouse was an important community building deserving of extra stylistic attention. Through its plain rectilinear form, numerous typical Greek Revival details, and simply finished interior, the Marlborough Congregation Church represents a pristine example of the antebellum New England meetinghouse. The pulpit is an especially notable component. Such Greek Revival-style pulpits appear in photographs from the mid-19th century, and the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives presided from a similar desk in the State House at Hartford, which was remodeled in 1837. Because of Victorian-period refurbishings, relatively few of these Greek Revival pulpits and lecterns have survived. The builder of the Marlborough Congregational Church, who along with the congregation's building committee presumably came up with the design, was Augustus Truesdale (c.1807-1870). Truesdale, born in Thompson, Connecticut, was himself the son of a carpenter. He lived for a while in Coventry and Somers before settling in the Rockville section of Vernon, where he is known to have built the first St. Bernard's Church (no longer extant), as well as several large houses for Rockville's millowner families. He passed on the country-builder tradition to his nephew Albert Truesdale, who worked with him for several years in Rockville and became a prominent builder in Killingly, Connecticut, in the lat 19th century. Truesdale received $2600 for building the church, with another $600 paid to A. and S. Brainard for laying the stone for the basement. The present church in Marlborough is the congregation's second meetinghouse. In 1736 fourteen people from the area, then part of the towns of Colchester, Glastonbury, and Hebron, requested permission from the Connecticut General Assembly to establish their own separate place of worship, claiming that travelling a distance of seven or eight miles to attend Sabbath services put a strain on their "weakly wives" and small children. In 1747 the Assembly finally granted the residents permission to form the Ecclesiastical Society of Marlborough, and work began to construct a suitable meetinghouse. In 1803 Marlborough was incorporated as a separate town. As the population increased, Marlborough's first meetinghouse became cramped; it also was thought to be cold and uncomfortable. In January 1841 a subscription was drawn up to raise funds for a new church, and at a March 1841 meeting the congregation voted to establish a building committee. The first services in the new structure were held in August 1841 upon completion of the basement. After several more months of construction, the church was finished and was dedicated on March 16, 1842, with a large number of people participating in the celebration. Although Congregationalism ceased to be Connecticut's state-supported religion after the ratification of the state constitution in 1818, it remained the faith of a large majority of people in most rural Connecticut towns throughout the 19th century. Consequently, Congregational meetinghouses served as symbols of community identity beyond their specifically religious meaning. With Sunday Schools, missionary societies, women's organizations, and other church-related groups, the meetinghouses functioned as social centers for their towns. Moreover, most small rural towns (including Marlborough) held their town meetings and elections in the Congregational meetinghouse well into the 20th century. Not only was this a tradition inherited from colonial times; but also in most towns the Congregational meetinghouse, because of its size and central location, was the only structure that could reasonably accommodate large public meetings.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. May 1993.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This historic image was taken in 1903 at the Centennial Celebration of Marlborough.

Address: 35 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: First Church in Marlborough (Congregational)
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Congregational Church
Present Use: Church
Historic Use: Church
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1842
Description: The Marlborough Congregational Church is a frame Greek Revival-style meetinghouse situated on a hill overlooking South Main Street. The setting is a rural, wooded area with a scattering of both historic and modern buildings nearby. Completed in 1842, the church is a single tall story high and measures 44 by 55 feet in plan, with its narrower end facing the road. The front gable is treated as a pediment, and the main entrance is recessed, centered behind two freestanding fluted Doric columns. The corners of the building are finished with wide, plain pilasters, and a simple entablature runs below the eaves and across the front gable. The entrance has double doors of recessed panels, above which is a row of dentils and a pair of panels where a transom might be; a fluted-board frame with acanthus-leaf carving in the corner blocks surrounds the entrance. Clapboards cover the side and rear elevations of the church, while the facade is finished with matched boards. Side elevations have a single tier of tall triple-hung windows fitted with fifteen-pane sash; the windows have shutters in two parts, with the top parts closed so as to block off the upper third of the windows. A small, square-plan tower located on the front end of the gable roof is made up of four parts: a base with a molded cornice; a belfry stage in which a plain paired pilasters flank a large rectangular louvered opening, about which is a reduced-scale version of the building's main cornice; another stage identical to the belfry but smaller in size; and a shallow dome surmounted by a wrought-iron weather vane in the form of a large arrow. The original bell dating from 1841 became cracked and was replaced by the present bell in 1889. The steeple was toppled during the Hurricane of 1938, which also caused minor damage to the church itself; both were repaired and returned to the original appearance. The church's granite basement story is partly exposed on the side elevations; it was built from stone quarried from the northern part of Marlborough, as were the entry steps that extend across the front of the church. The interior of the building, which is still used fro religious services, is simple, unadorned, and almost entirely original. A small vestibule runs across the rear of the church, where two doors give access to the auditorium; there are two stairways, one leading to the basement and the other to a balcony, which was closed off in 1888. The large open auditorium has plaster walls, a simple wainscot of vertical boards, and a coved ceiling. The pulpit, which is said to incorporate elements from an earlier church's pulpit commissioned in 1754, consists of a slanted desk atop a large base; its front has four fluted engaged columns that carry an entablature decorated with a Greek fret or meander design. The church's painted pews have paneled sides, a dark-stained wooden top rail, and stained curved arm rests terminating in a circular turning. Other original interior woodwork includes paneled doors and simple molded window frames. The seating is arranged as seven rows, with a large center section, two aisles, and smaller side sections. Wainscot railings define two spaces at the front corners of the church for a modern organ (a replacement for an 1860 organ that was originally located in the balcony) and, opposite the organ, seating for the choir. The mid-19th century circular was clock on the rear wall of the auditorium was a gift of Elias Ingraham, a former Marlborough resident and founder of E. Ingraham & Company of Bristol, Connecticut, one of the country’s largest clock and watch manufacturers. Two large wings have been added at the rear of the church. The Crawford Wing, a 2 1/2 story addition dedicated in 1955, extends from the northeast corner; it contains the Christian Education office, a kindergarten, and several other rooms. Extending from the southeast rear corner is a 1-story brick wing housing the Community Fellowship hall; it was built in 1974. Though they are sizable additions, the visual impact of the wings is reduced because they are relatively low in height, with their entrances at the same level as the church's basement.
Significance: The Marlborough Congregational Church is significant primarily as a well-preserved example of early 19th century New England church architecture, epitomizing the Greek Revival style with its fluted columns, pedimented gable, and other elements derived from Classical precedents. In addition, the property is significant for its role in the historical development of Marlborough. The church was the place of religious worship for the town's Congregationalist majority, as well as accommodating town meetings and other community gatherings. The Greek Revival style was a popular choice for New England meetinghouses built in the 1830s and 1840s. Features such as Classical columns, pilasters, cornices, dentils, and acanthus-leaf ornament--all present in the Marlborough Congregational Church--reflected an interest in the architecture and institutions of ancient Greece, which had important democratic connotations for Americans of the early National period. The ideal form for Greek Revival builders was that of the Classical temple. The temple form is closely approximated in the Marlborough Congregational Church through its orientation, with the gable end facing the road; the treatment of the front gable as a pediment; the creation of a recessed entry or "anta" with plainly finished side walls, a common arrangement in Greek temples; and the use of flush boarding on the facade to imitate masonry. The use of Greek Revival elements in this building also indicated that, like contemporary courthouses and academies, the meetinghouse was an important community building deserving of extra stylistic attention. Through its plain rectilinear form, numerous typical Greek Revival details, and simply finished interior, the Marlborough Congregation Church represents a pristine example of the antebellum New England meetinghouse. The pulpit is an especially notable component. Such Greek Revival-style pulpits appear in photographs from the mid-19th century, and the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives presided from a similar desk in the State House at Hartford, which was remodeled in 1837. Because of Victorian-period refurbishings, relatively few of these Greek Revival pulpits and lecterns have survived. The builder of the Marlborough Congregational Church, who along with the congregation's building committee presumably came up with the design, was Augustus Truesdale (c.1807-1870). Truesdale, born in Thompson, Connecticut, was himself the son of a carpenter. He lived for a while in Coventry and Somers before settling in the Rockville section of Vernon, where he is known to have built the first St. Bernard's Church (no longer extant), as well as several large houses for Rockville's millowner families. He passed on the country-builder tradition to his nephew Albert Truesdale, who worked with him for several years in Rockville and became a prominent builder in Killingly, Connecticut, in the lat 19th century. Truesdale received $2600 for building the church, with another $600 paid to A. and S. Brainard for laying the stone for the basement. The present church in Marlborough is the congregation's second meetinghouse. In 1736 fourteen people from the area, then part of the towns of Colchester, Glastonbury, and Hebron, requested permission from the Connecticut General Assembly to establish their own separate place of worship, claiming that travelling a distance of seven or eight miles to attend Sabbath services put a strain on their "weakly wives" and small children. In 1747 the Assembly finally granted the residents permission to form the Ecclesiastical Society of Marlborough, and work began to construct a suitable meetinghouse. In 1803 Marlborough was incorporated as a separate town. As the population increased, Marlborough's first meetinghouse became cramped; it also was thought to be cold and uncomfortable. In January 1841 a subscription was drawn up to raise funds for a new church, and at a March 1841 meeting the congregation voted to establish a building committee. The first services in the new structure were held in August 1841 upon completion of the basement. After several more months of construction, the church was finished and was dedicated on March 16, 1842, with a large number of people participating in the celebration. Although Congregationalism ceased to be Connecticut's state-supported religion after the ratification of the state constitution in 1818, it remained the faith of a large majority of people in most rural Connecticut towns throughout the 19th century. Consequently, Congregational meetinghouses served as symbols of community identity beyond their specifically religious meaning. With Sunday Schools, missionary societies, women's organizations, and other church-related groups, the meetinghouses functioned as social centers for their towns. Moreover, most small rural towns (including Marlborough) held their town meetings and elections in the Congregational meetinghouse well into the 20th century. Not only was this a tradition inherited from colonial times; but also in most towns the Congregational meetinghouse, because of its size and central location, was the only structure that could reasonably accommodate large public meetings.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. May 1993.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This historic image was taken in 1907.

Address: 35 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: First Church in Marlborough (Congregational)
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Congregational Church
Present Use: Church
Historic Use: Church
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1842
Description: The Marlborough Congregational Church is a frame Greek Revival-style meetinghouse situated on a hill overlooking South Main Street. The setting is a rural, wooded area with a scattering of both historic and modern buildings nearby. Completed in 1842, the church is a single tall story high and measures 44 by 55 feet in plan, with its narrower end facing the road. The front gable is treated as a pediment, and the main entrance is recessed, centered behind two freestanding fluted Doric columns. The corners of the building are finished with wide, plain pilasters, and a simple entablature runs below the eaves and across the front gable. The entrance has double doors of recessed panels, above which is a row of dentils and a pair of panels where a transom might be; a fluted-board frame with acanthus-leaf carving in the corner blocks surrounds the entrance. Clapboards cover the side and rear elevations of the church, while the facade is finished with matched boards. Side elevations have a single tier of tall triple-hung windows fitted with fifteen-pane sash; the windows have shutters in two parts, with the top parts closed so as to block off the upper third of the windows. A small, square-plan tower located on the front end of the gable roof is made up of four parts: a base with a molded cornice; a belfry stage in which a plain paired pilasters flank a large rectangular louvered opening, about which is a reduced-scale version of the building's main cornice; another stage identical to the belfry but smaller in size; and a shallow dome surmounted by a wrought-iron weather vane in the form of a large arrow. The original bell dating from 1841 became cracked and was replaced by the present bell in 1889. The steeple was toppled during the Hurricane of 1938, which also caused minor damage to the church itself; both were repaired and returned to the original appearance. The church's granite basement story is partly exposed on the side elevations; it was built from stone quarried from the northern part of Marlborough, as were the entry steps that extend across the front of the church. The interior of the building, which is still used fro religious services, is simple, unadorned, and almost entirely original. A small vestibule runs across the rear of the church, where two doors give access to the auditorium; there are two stairways, one leading to the basement and the other to a balcony, which was closed off in 1888. The large open auditorium has plaster walls, a simple wainscot of vertical boards, and a coved ceiling. The pulpit, which is said to incorporate elements from an earlier church's pulpit commissioned in 1754, consists of a slanted desk atop a large base; its front has four fluted engaged columns that carry an entablature decorated with a Greek fret or meander design. The church's painted pews have paneled sides, a dark-stained wooden top rail, and stained curved arm rests terminating in a circular turning. Other original interior woodwork includes paneled doors and simple molded window frames. The seating is arranged as seven rows, with a large center section, two aisles, and smaller side sections. Wainscot railings define two spaces at the front corners of the church for a modern organ (a replacement for an 1860 organ that was originally located in the balcony) and, opposite the organ, seating for the choir. The mid-19th century circular was clock on the rear wall of the auditorium was a gift of Elias Ingraham, a former Marlborough resident and founder of E. Ingraham & Company of Bristol, Connecticut, one of the country’s largest clock and watch manufacturers. Two large wings have been added at the rear of the church. The Crawford Wing, a 2 1/2 story addition dedicated in 1955, extends from the northeast corner; it contains the Christian Education office, a kindergarten, and several other rooms. Extending from the southeast rear corner is a 1-story brick wing housing the Community Fellowship hall; it was built in 1974. Though they are sizable additions, the visual impact of the wings is reduced because they are relatively low in height, with their entrances at the same level as the church's basement.
Significance: The Marlborough Congregational Church is significant primarily as a well-preserved example of early 19th century New England church architecture, epitomizing the Greek Revival style with its fluted columns, pedimented gable, and other elements derived from Classical precedents. In addition, the property is significant for its role in the historical development of Marlborough. The church was the place of religious worship for the town's Congregationalist majority, as well as accommodating town meetings and other community gatherings. The Greek Revival style was a popular choice for New England meetinghouses built in the 1830s and 1840s. Features such as Classical columns, pilasters, cornices, dentils, and acanthus-leaf ornament--all present in the Marlborough Congregational Church--reflected an interest in the architecture and institutions of ancient Greece, which had important democratic connotations for Americans of the early National period. The ideal form for Greek Revival builders was that of the Classical temple. The temple form is closely approximated in the Marlborough Congregational Church through its orientation, with the gable end facing the road; the treatment of the front gable as a pediment; the creation of a recessed entry or "anta" with plainly finished side walls, a common arrangement in Greek temples; and the use of flush boarding on the facade to imitate masonry. The use of Greek Revival elements in this building also indicated that, like contemporary courthouses and academies, the meetinghouse was an important community building deserving of extra stylistic attention. Through its plain rectilinear form, numerous typical Greek Revival details, and simply finished interior, the Marlborough Congregation Church represents a pristine example of the antebellum New England meetinghouse. The pulpit is an especially notable component. Such Greek Revival-style pulpits appear in photographs from the mid-19th century, and the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives presided from a similar desk in the State House at Hartford, which was remodeled in 1837. Because of Victorian-period refurbishings, relatively few of these Greek Revival pulpits and lecterns have survived. The builder of the Marlborough Congregational Church, who along with the congregation's building committee presumably came up with the design, was Augustus Truesdale (c.1807-1870). Truesdale, born in Thompson, Connecticut, was himself the son of a carpenter. He lived for a while in Coventry and Somers before settling in the Rockville section of Vernon, where he is known to have built the first St. Bernard's Church (no longer extant), as well as several large houses for Rockville's millowner families. He passed on the country-builder tradition to his nephew Albert Truesdale, who worked with him for several years in Rockville and became a prominent builder in Killingly, Connecticut, in the lat 19th century. Truesdale received $2600 for building the church, with another $600 paid to A. and S. Brainard for laying the stone for the basement. The present church in Marlborough is the congregation's second meetinghouse. In 1736 fourteen people from the area, then part of the towns of Colchester, Glastonbury, and Hebron, requested permission from the Connecticut General Assembly to establish their own separate place of worship, claiming that travelling a distance of seven or eight miles to attend Sabbath services put a strain on their "weakly wives" and small children. In 1747 the Assembly finally granted the residents permission to form the Ecclesiastical Society of Marlborough, and work began to construct a suitable meetinghouse. In 1803 Marlborough was incorporated as a separate town. As the population increased, Marlborough's first meetinghouse became cramped; it also was thought to be cold and uncomfortable. In January 1841 a subscription was drawn up to raise funds for a new church, and at a March 1841 meeting the congregation voted to establish a building committee. The first services in the new structure were held in August 1841 upon completion of the basement. After several more months of construction, the church was finished and was dedicated on March 16, 1842, with a large number of people participating in the celebration. Although Congregationalism ceased to be Connecticut's state-supported religion after the ratification of the state constitution in 1818, it remained the faith of a large majority of people in most rural Connecticut towns throughout the 19th century. Consequently, Congregational meetinghouses served as symbols of community identity beyond their specifically religious meaning. With Sunday Schools, missionary societies, women's organizations, and other church-related groups, the meetinghouses functioned as social centers for their towns. Moreover, most small rural towns (including Marlborough) held their town meetings and elections in the Congregational meetinghouse well into the 20th century. Not only was this a tradition inherited from colonial times; but also in most towns the Congregational meetinghouse, because of its size and central location, was the only structure that could reasonably accommodate large public meetings.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. May 1993.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This historic image was taken in 1938, shortly after a hurricane swept through the state. Notice the missing dome on the steeple, which was lost in the high winds.

Address: 35 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: First Church in Marlborough (Congregational)
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Congregational Church
Present Use: Church
Historic Use: Church
Architectural style: Greek Revival
Date constructed: 1842
Description: The Marlborough Congregational Church is a frame Greek Revival-style meetinghouse situated on a hill overlooking South Main Street. The setting is a rural, wooded area with a scattering of both historic and modern buildings nearby. Completed in 1842, the church is a single tall story high and measures 44 by 55 feet in plan, with its narrower end facing the road. The front gable is treated as a pediment, and the main entrance is recessed, centered behind two freestanding fluted Doric columns. The corners of the building are finished with wide, plain pilasters, and a simple entablature runs below the eaves and across the front gable. The entrance has double doors of recessed panels, above which is a row of dentils and a pair of panels where a transom might be; a fluted-board frame with acanthus-leaf carving in the corner blocks surrounds the entrance. Clapboards cover the side and rear elevations of the church, while the facade is finished with matched boards. Side elevations have a single tier of tall triple-hung windows fitted with fifteen-pane sash; the windows have shutters in two parts, with the top parts closed so as to block off the upper third of the windows. A small, square-plan tower located on the front end of the gable roof is made up of four parts: a base with a molded cornice; a belfry stage in which a plain paired pilasters flank a large rectangular louvered opening, about which is a reduced-scale version of the building's main cornice; another stage identical to the belfry but smaller in size; and a shallow dome surmounted by a wrought-iron weather vane in the form of a large arrow. The original bell dating from 1841 became cracked and was replaced by the present bell in 1889. The steeple was toppled during the Hurricane of 1938, which also caused minor damage to the church itself; both were repaired and returned to the original appearance. The church's granite basement story is partly exposed on the side elevations; it was built from stone quarried from the northern part of Marlborough, as were the entry steps that extend across the front of the church. The interior of the building, which is still used fro religious services, is simple, unadorned, and almost entirely original. A small vestibule runs across the rear of the church, where two doors give access to the auditorium; there are two stairways, one leading to the basement and the other to a balcony, which was closed off in 1888. The large open auditorium has plaster walls, a simple wainscot of vertical boards, and a coved ceiling. The pulpit, which is said to incorporate elements from an earlier church's pulpit commissioned in 1754, consists of a slanted desk atop a large base; its front has four fluted engaged columns that carry an entablature decorated with a Greek fret or meander design. The church's painted pews have paneled sides, a dark-stained wooden top rail, and stained curved arm rests terminating in a circular turning. Other original interior woodwork includes paneled doors and simple molded window frames. The seating is arranged as seven rows, with a large center section, two aisles, and smaller side sections. Wainscot railings define two spaces at the front corners of the church for a modern organ (a replacement for an 1860 organ that was originally located in the balcony) and, opposite the organ, seating for the choir. The mid-19th century circular was clock on the rear wall of the auditorium was a gift of Elias Ingraham, a former Marlborough resident and founder of E. Ingraham & Company of Bristol, Connecticut, one of the country’s largest clock and watch manufacturers. Two large wings have been added at the rear of the church. The Crawford Wing, a 2 1/2 story addition dedicated in 1955, extends from the northeast corner; it contains the Christian Education office, a kindergarten, and several other rooms. Extending from the southeast rear corner is a 1-story brick wing housing the Community Fellowship hall; it was built in 1974. Though they are sizable additions, the visual impact of the wings is reduced because they are relatively low in height, with their entrances at the same level as the church's basement.
Significance: The Marlborough Congregational Church is significant primarily as a well-preserved example of early 19th century New England church architecture, epitomizing the Greek Revival style with its fluted columns, pedimented gable, and other elements derived from Classical precedents. In addition, the property is significant for its role in the historical development of Marlborough. The church was the place of religious worship for the town's Congregationalist majority, as well as accommodating town meetings and other community gatherings. The Greek Revival style was a popular choice for New England meetinghouses built in the 1830s and 1840s. Features such as Classical columns, pilasters, cornices, dentils, and acanthus-leaf ornament--all present in the Marlborough Congregational Church--reflected an interest in the architecture and institutions of ancient Greece, which had important democratic connotations for Americans of the early National period. The ideal form for Greek Revival builders was that of the Classical temple. The temple form is closely approximated in the Marlborough Congregational Church through its orientation, with the gable end facing the road; the treatment of the front gable as a pediment; the creation of a recessed entry or "anta" with plainly finished side walls, a common arrangement in Greek temples; and the use of flush boarding on the facade to imitate masonry. The use of Greek Revival elements in this building also indicated that, like contemporary courthouses and academies, the meetinghouse was an important community building deserving of extra stylistic attention. Through its plain rectilinear form, numerous typical Greek Revival details, and simply finished interior, the Marlborough Congregation Church represents a pristine example of the antebellum New England meetinghouse. The pulpit is an especially notable component. Such Greek Revival-style pulpits appear in photographs from the mid-19th century, and the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives presided from a similar desk in the State House at Hartford, which was remodeled in 1837. Because of Victorian-period refurbishings, relatively few of these Greek Revival pulpits and lecterns have survived. The builder of the Marlborough Congregational Church, who along with the congregation's building committee presumably came up with the design, was Augustus Truesdale (c.1807-1870). Truesdale, born in Thompson, Connecticut, was himself the son of a carpenter. He lived for a while in Coventry and Somers before settling in the Rockville section of Vernon, where he is known to have built the first St. Bernard's Church (no longer extant), as well as several large houses for Rockville's millowner families. He passed on the country-builder tradition to his nephew Albert Truesdale, who worked with him for several years in Rockville and became a prominent builder in Killingly, Connecticut, in the lat 19th century. Truesdale received $2600 for building the church, with another $600 paid to A. and S. Brainard for laying the stone for the basement. The present church in Marlborough is the congregation's second meetinghouse. In 1736 fourteen people from the area, then part of the towns of Colchester, Glastonbury, and Hebron, requested permission from the Connecticut General Assembly to establish their own separate place of worship, claiming that travelling a distance of seven or eight miles to attend Sabbath services put a strain on their "weakly wives" and small children. In 1747 the Assembly finally granted the residents permission to form the Ecclesiastical Society of Marlborough, and work began to construct a suitable meetinghouse. In 1803 Marlborough was incorporated as a separate town. As the population increased, Marlborough's first meetinghouse became cramped; it also was thought to be cold and uncomfortable. In January 1841 a subscription was drawn up to raise funds for a new church, and at a March 1841 meeting the congregation voted to establish a building committee. The first services in the new structure were held in August 1841 upon completion of the basement. After several more months of construction, the church was finished and was dedicated on March 16, 1842, with a large number of people participating in the celebration. Although Congregationalism ceased to be Connecticut's state-supported religion after the ratification of the state constitution in 1818, it remained the faith of a large majority of people in most rural Connecticut towns throughout the 19th century. Consequently, Congregational meetinghouses served as symbols of community identity beyond their specifically religious meaning. With Sunday Schools, missionary societies, women's organizations, and other church-related groups, the meetinghouses functioned as social centers for their towns. Moreover, most small rural towns (including Marlborough) held their town meetings and elections in the Congregational meetinghouse well into the 20th century. Not only was this a tradition inherited from colonial times; but also in most towns the Congregational meetinghouse, because of its size and central location, was the only structure that could reasonably accommodate large public meetings.
Sources: National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. May 1993.
Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: This historic image was taken in 1938, after a hurricane had taken down the down on top of the steeple. Here, workers are rebuilding the steeple and dome.

Address: 30 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: St. John Fisher Community Roman Catholic Church
Historic Building Name: St. John Fisher Community Roman Catholic Church
Present Use: Church
Historic Use: Church
Architectural style: Contemporary
Date constructed: 1975
Description: This is a contemporary structure with steeply pitched roofline, and elongated windows. The rear of the building has a shallower pitched gabled roof. The main entrance is to the right of the high pitched section of the building. There is no doubt that this is a church.
Significance: With the influx of people after World War II into Marlborough, many churches struggled with the increased visitation. In Marlborough, where there was not a Catholic Church, residents had to travel to neighboring towns for services, swelling those parishes. In 1972, the Archbishop of Hartford appointed Father Felix MacGuire as Marlborough’s first Catholic priest. Services were held in the American Legion Hall and the Grange Hall. The Congregational Church also offered their building for special celebrations, such as weddings, funerals, and Holy Days. In 1974, property was purchased on Jones Hollow Road, and they broke ground in 1975. The first mass was held in November 1975, and the official dedication was held in February 1976.
Sources: Historic files located in the Richmond Memorial Library.
Images and other information from Joe Giggey.
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Address: 24 South Road
Contemporary Building Name: Fellowship Community Evangelical Free Church
Historic Building Name: Fellowship Community Evangelical Free Church
Present Use: Church
Historic Use: Grange Hall
Architectural style: modern
Date constructed: 1950
Description: This gabled roof building is constructed primarily of masonry/concrete. It has a shingled roof, and several windows around the building.
Significance: This church started as a bible study in 1980, and in 1984 was organized and established as a member of the Evangelical Free Church. In 1986, the group purchased 5 acres and the old grange hall to use for their hall.
Sources: Historic files located in the Richmond Memorial Library.
Fellowship Community Evangelical Free Church website.
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Address: 39 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 39 South Main Street
Historic Building Name: Center School, Centre District No. 1. School
Current Use: Residence
Historic Use: Schoolhouse
Architectural Style: Vernacular
Date of Construction: 1860
Description: The gable end of the school faced the Congregational Church. It was situated on a hill, so that a cellar was most likely included. The simple structure had a door and one six-over-six window facing the Church, and four six-over-six windows on the west side. No photos are available of the south and east facades. A brick chimney extends out of the gabled roof, near the northern end of the building, and a cupola/bell tower (with gabled roof) is at the southern end of the building.
Significance: The Center School was one of the last one-room schoolhouses in Marlborough, closing in 1949, when the new Mary Hall School opened. There are references to a “Center” school in the early 1840s when the town listed five school districts. This school had structural analysis done, and it was determined that its date of construction was 1860. Students from the South School District came to the Center school when that school was closed in 1902. More students from the North school came when that school closed in 1932. When the new Mary Hall School opened, the Center school was deserted, and was turned into a private residence (as of 1984).
Sources: Schwarzmann, Vi. “History of the Marlborough Schools,” in Know Your Schools, Marlborough, CT: September, 1970. A report published under the direction of the Principal of the Marlborough Schools.
Fowler, Janet. A History of Education in a Small New England Town—Marlborough, Connecticut. Storrs, CT: I.N. Thut Education Center, The University of Connecticut; c.1984.
Notes: Image taken c. 1870.

Address: 39 South Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: 39 South Main Street
Historic Building Name: Center School, Centre District No. 1. School
Current Use: Residence
Historic Use: Schoolhouse
Architectural Style: Vernacular
Date of Construction: 1860
Description: The gable end of the school faced the Congregational Church. It was situated on a hill, so that a cellar was most likely included. The simple structure had a door and one six-over-six window facing the Church, and four six-over-six windows on the west side. No photos are available of the south and east facades. A brick chimney extends out of the gabled roof, near the northern end of the building, and a cupola/bell tower (with gabled roof) is at the southern end of the building.
Significance: The Center School was one of the last one-room schoolhouses in Marlborough, closing in 1949, when the new Mary Hall School opened. There are references to a “Center” school in the early 1840s when the town listed five school districts. This school had structural analysis done, and it was determined that its date of construction was 1860. Students from the South School District came to the Center school when that school was closed in 1902. More students from the North school came when that school closed in 1932. When the new Mary Hall School opened, the Center school was deserted, and was turned into a private residence (as of 1984).
Sources: Schwarzmann, Vi. “History of the Marlborough Schools,” in Know Your Schools, Marlborough, CT: September, 1970. A report published under the direction of the Principal of the Marlborough Schools.
Fowler, Janet. A History of Education in a Small New England Town—Marlborough, Connecticut. Storrs, CT: I.N. Thut Education Center, The University of Connecticut; c.1984.
Notes: Image taken in 1995.

Address: North of 265-267 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Northwest Schoolhouse, Factory District No. 2. School
Current Use: N/A
Historic Use: Schoolhouse
Style of Building: Greek Revival
Date of Construction: c. 1840
Description: The Northwest School was a small one-room school house, with a gable roof, and situated with a pediment front. The three-bay front included a paneled door in center, with flanking six-over-six double-hung windows with shutters. The door surrounds are stylistic Greek Revival, with pilasters, and entablature. The corners of the building also include pilasters. The pediment front is simple, and unadorned. The sides of the building include three six-over-six double-hung windows, with shutters. Atop the roof toward the front is a square cupola/bell tower with dental molding. At the back of the roof is a small brick chimney. The foundation appears to be made of stone.
Significance: The Northwest School was one of the last one-room schoolhouses in Marlborough, closing in 1949, when the new Mary Hall School opened. There are references to a “Northwest” school in the early 1800s when both Baptist and Methodist services were held within their structures. There is also a reference to an “obsolete schoolhouse” that sold for $6 in 1847. The “new” Northwest school was built on the Austin farm on North Main Street. The land remained in the possession of the Austin family, but the building belonged to the town. When the new Mary Hall School opened, the Northwest school was deserted, and left empty. Over the years, the building deteriorated, eventually falling in on itself. The cellar hole still exists (as of 1984).
Sources: Schwarzmann, Vi. “History of the Marlborough Schools,” in Know Your Schools, Marlborough, CT: September, 1970. A report published under the direction of the Principal of the Marlborough Schools.
Fowler, Janet. A History of Education in a Small New England Town—Marlborough, Connecticut. Storrs, CT: I.N. Thut Education Center, The University of Connecticut; c.1984.
Notes: Image taken c. 1908.

Address: North of 265-267 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Northwest Schoolhouse, Factory District No. 2. School
Current Use: N/A
Historic Use: Schoolhouse
Style of Building: Greek Revival
Date of Construction: c. 1840
Description: The Northwest School was a small one-room school house, with a gable roof, and situated with a pediment front. The three-bay front included a paneled door in center, with flanking six-over-six double-hung windows with shutters. The door surrounds are stylistic Greek Revival, with pilasters, and entablature. The corners of the building also include pilasters. The pediment front is simple, and unadorned. The sides of the building include three six-over-six double-hung windows, with shutters. Atop the roof toward the front is a square cupola/bell tower with dental molding. At the back of the roof is a small brick chimney. The foundation appears to be made of stone.
Significance: The Northwest School was one of the last one-room schoolhouses in Marlborough, closing in 1949, when the new Mary Hall School opened. There are references to a “Northwest” school in the early 1800s when both Baptist and Methodist services were held within their structures. There is also a reference to an “obsolete schoolhouse” that sold for $6 in 1847. The “new” Northwest school was built on the Austin farm on North Main Street. The land remained in the possession of the Austin family, but the building belonged to the town. When the new Mary Hall School opened, the Northwest school was deserted, and left empty. Over the years, the building deteriorated, eventually falling in on itself. The cellar hole still exists (as of 1984).
Sources: Schwarzmann, Vi. “History of the Marlborough Schools,” in Know Your Schools, Marlborough, CT: September, 1970. A report published under the direction of the Principal of the Marlborough Schools.
Fowler, Janet. A History of Education in a Small New England Town—Marlborough, Connecticut. Storrs, CT: I.N. Thut Education Center, The University of Connecticut; c.1984.
Notes: Image taken in 1946, of one of the last classes of students held in the school.

Address: North of 265 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Mills
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Textile Manufacturing
Architectural style: Industrial
Date constructed: c. 1870s
Significance: “The Marlborough Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1815, the north factory being built first, with some other smaller buildings, but later the company failed and these buildings were sold to the Union Manufacturing Company. The Union Manufacturing Company began operating this mill, and later built the lower mill and several dwellings. This property was greatly increased in value as the years went on, and the homes of the operatives furnished a market for much of the produce of the farms of the town. The fabric manufactured was a blue cotton stripe, the market for which was found in the south among the cotton planters, for the clothing of the slaves. During the Civil War there was no demand for the cloth, and no cotton, and the mills stood idle. The old mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, and the new one in 1864, together with many of the dwellings which had been occupied by the operatives of the mill. The mills when burned were owned by Isaac Allen. Since then a new mill and some dwellings have been built, and silk ribbon was manufactured for a short time, but now (1903) the mill is silent and the dwellings vacant.” Shortly after this description was written, in 1907, the mill burned down, leaving only the foundation.
Sources: Hall, Mary. Report of the Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlborough, August 23 and 25, 1903. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. 1904.
Notes: A view of the main mill building from the South.

Address: North of 265 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Mills
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Textile Manufacturing
Architectural style: Industrial
Date constructed: c. 1870s
Significance: “The Marlborough Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1815, the north factory being built first, with some other smaller buildings, but later the company failed and these buildings were sold to the Union Manufacturing Company. The Union Manufacturing Company began operating this mill, and later built the lower mill and several dwellings. This property was greatly increased in value as the years went on, and the homes of the operatives furnished a market for much of the produce of the farms of the town. The fabric manufactured was a blue cotton stripe, the market for which was found in the south among the cotton planters, for the clothing of the slaves. During the Civil War there was no demand for the cloth, and no cotton, and the mills stood idle. The old mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, and the new one in 1864, together with many of the dwellings which had been occupied by the operatives of the mill. The mills when burned were owned by Isaac Allen. Since then a new mill and some dwellings have been built, and silk ribbon was manufactured for a short time, but now (1903) the mill is silent and the dwellings vacant.” Shortly after this description was written, in 1907, the mill burned down, leaving only the foundation.
Sources: Hall, Mary. Report of the Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlborough, August 23 and 25, 1903. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. 1904.
Notes: A view of the main mill building from the East.

Address: North of 265 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Mills Dye House
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Textile Manufacturing
Architectural style: Industrial
Date constructed: c. 1870s
Significance: “The Marlborough Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1815, the north factory being built first, with some other smaller buildings, but later the company failed and these buildings were sold to the Union Manufacturing Company. The Union Manufacturing Company began operating this mill, and later built the lower mill and several dwellings. This property was greatly increased in value as the years went on, and the homes of the operatives furnished a market for much of the produce of the farms of the town. The fabric manufactured was a blue cotton stripe, the market for which was found in the south among the cotton planters, for the clothing of the slaves. During the Civil War there was no demand for the cloth, and no cotton, and the mills stood idle. The old mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, and the new one in 1864, together with many of the dwellings which had been occupied by the operatives of the mill. The mills when burned were owned by Isaac Allen. Since then a new mill and some dwellings have been built, and silk ribbon was manufactured for a short time, but now (1903) the mill is silent and the dwellings vacant.” Shortly after this description was written, in 1907, the mill burned down, leaving only the foundation.
Sources: Hall, Mary. Report of the Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlborough, August 23 and 25, 1903. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. 1904.
Notes: A view of the Dye House, taken around 1885.

Address: North of 265 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Mills
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Textile Manufacturing
Architectural style: Industrial
Date constructed: c. 1870s
Significance: “The Marlborough Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1815, the north factory being built first, with some other smaller buildings, but later the company failed and these buildings were sold to the Union Manufacturing Company. The Union Manufacturing Company began operating this mill, and later built the lower mill and several dwellings. This property was greatly increased in value as the years went on, and the homes of the operatives furnished a market for much of the produce of the farms of the town. The fabric manufactured was a blue cotton stripe, the market for which was found in the south among the cotton planters, for the clothing of the slaves. During the Civil War there was no demand for the cloth, and no cotton, and the mills stood idle. The old mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, and the new one in 1864, together with many of the dwellings which had been occupied by the operatives of the mill. The mills when burned were owned by Isaac Allen. Since then a new mill and some dwellings have been built, and silk ribbon was manufactured for a short time, but now (1903) the mill is silent and the dwellings vacant.” Shortly after this description was written, in 1907, the mill burned down, leaving only the foundation.
Sources: Hall, Mary. Report of the Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlborough, August 23 and 25, 1903. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. 1904.
Notes: Postcard view of the main mill buildings, c. 1905.

Address: North of 265 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Mills
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Textile Manufacturing
Architectural style: Industrial
Date constructed: c. 1870s
Significance: “The Marlborough Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1815, the north factory being built first, with some other smaller buildings, but later the company failed and these buildings were sold to the Union Manufacturing Company. The Union Manufacturing Company began operating this mill, and later built the lower mill and several dwellings. This property was greatly increased in value as the years went on, and the homes of the operatives furnished a market for much of the produce of the farms of the town. The fabric manufactured was a blue cotton stripe, the market for which was found in the south among the cotton planters, for the clothing of the slaves. During the Civil War there was no demand for the cloth, and no cotton, and the mills stood idle. The old mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, and the new one in 1864, together with many of the dwellings which had been occupied by the operatives of the mill. The mills when burned were owned by Isaac Allen. Since then a new mill and some dwellings have been built, and silk ribbon was manufactured for a short time, but now (1903) the mill is silent and the dwellings vacant.” Shortly after this description was written, in 1907, the mill burned down, leaving only the foundation.
Sources: Hall, Mary. Report of the Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlborough, August 23 and 25, 1903. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. 1904.
Notes: Image of foundations left after the 1907 fire.

Address: North of 265 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: N/A
Historic Building Name: Marlborough Mills
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Textile Manufacturing
Architectural style: Industrial
Date constructed: c. 1870s
Significance: “The Marlborough Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1815, the north factory being built first, with some other smaller buildings, but later the company failed and these buildings were sold to the Union Manufacturing Company. The Union Manufacturing Company began operating this mill, and later built the lower mill and several dwellings. This property was greatly increased in value as the years went on, and the homes of the operatives furnished a market for much of the produce of the farms of the town. The fabric manufactured was a blue cotton stripe, the market for which was found in the south among the cotton planters, for the clothing of the slaves. During the Civil War there was no demand for the cloth, and no cotton, and the mills stood idle. The old mill was destroyed by fire in 1861, and the new one in 1864, together with many of the dwellings which had been occupied by the operatives of the mill. The mills when burned were owned by Isaac Allen. Since then a new mill and some dwellings have been built, and silk ribbon was manufactured for a short time, but now (1903) the mill is silent and the dwellings vacant.” Shortly after this description was written, in 1907, the mill burned down, leaving only the foundation.
Sources: Hall, Mary. Report of the Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of Marlborough, August 23 and 25, 1903. Hartford: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company. 1904.
Notes: Image of foundations left after the 1907 fire.

Address: 14 Jones Hollow Road
Contemporary Building Name: 14 Jones Hollow Road
Historic Building Name: E. F. Jones House
Present Use: N/A
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Greek Revival / vernacular
Date constructed: c. 1850 (Ransom), 1880 (Assessor)
Description: 14 Jones Hollow Road is an L-shaped building consisting of a principal block with gable end to the street, to the north, and a wing set back on the south. In the two-bay gable end of the main block facing the street (front elevation), there are two 2-over-2 windows, off set to the north, at both first and second floors, under a horizontal six-pane attic window. Wide corner boards define the corners of the house, but there is no cornice and the eaves do not return. The wing is protected by a shed-roofed porch supported by square posts with diagonal brackets. The wing has a central door flanked by 2-over-2 windows and a second door at its north, which opens into the main block. There are two wall dormers above the porch which break through the eaves of the main roof. Each dormer has a 2-over-2 window. A chimney rises from the rear of the main block and the south end of the wing.
Significance: 14 Jones hollow Road probably was not built all at one time. The rectangular attic window suggests a time of origin toward the end of the Greek Revival era, but the two-bay gable end, without door, is unusual, as is the fact the two bays are not centered. It may be that the house originally had a one-story wing that was changed to 1 1/2 stories by raising the roof and adding the wall dormers, which are an unusual feature in Marlborough. The wall dormers and the 2-over-2 windows are late-19th century features. It may be that the Assessor's date of 1880 marks the introduction of these alterations. The conjecture on how the house grew could be informed by examination of basement walls and attic framing. The 1855 map identifies a house at approximately this location with the name E. F. Jones, one of the many Joneses who lived on Jones Hollow Road.
Sources: Ransom, David. Historical and Architectural Resources Survey, Town of Marlborough, Connecticut. April 1998.
Notes: House was torn down sometime between 1998 and 2004. A new Professional Building (doctor office) and Emergency Medical facility was built on this site.

Image: Hughes postcard, "Blish Cottage, Lake Terramuggus, Marlborough, Conn." c. 1925
Description: The Blish family owned and operated cottages on the lake and rented them out to vacationers. Most of these cottages are no longer standing. Terramuggus Lake is town-owned. It has an area of 83 acres, a maximum depth of 43 feet and a mean depth of 21.4 feet. Homes have been built around most of the lake, and much of the remaining area is used for municipal or lake association beaches. The lake has a public boat launch open to Marlborough residents, but motors greater than 3.3 hp are banned. Terramuggus is an oligotrophic lake with low diversity and low abundance of aquatic plants. Only seven submerged species were found in the lake during a July 2004 survey, all of them native plants. Plants grew sparsely in widely scattered patches; some areas supported filamentous algae or Charaphyte, but no plants or algae at all grew on much of the lake bottom.
Sources: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station website: http://www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2799&q=376144
Image from the Historical Collection at the Richmond Memorial Library
Notes:

Image: Copy print of the pavilion, c. 1935.
Description: The Blish Family owned and operated the pavilion and cottages on the Lake for several years. The current Pavilion is located on the spot of this historic pavilion. Terramuggus Lake is town-owned. It has an area of 83 acres, a maximum depth of 43 feet and a mean depth of 21.4 feet. Homes have been built around most of the lake, and much of the remaining area is used for municipal or lake association beaches. The lake has a public boat launch open to Marlborough residents, but motors greater than 3.3 hp are banned. Terramuggus is an oligotrophic lake with low diversity and low abundance of aquatic plants. Only seven submerged species were found in the lake during a July 2004 survey, all of them native plants. Plants grew sparsely in widely scattered patches; some areas supported filamentous algae or Charaphyte, but no plants or algae at all grew on much of the lake bottom.
Sources: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station website: http://www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2799&q=376144
Image from the Historical Collection at the Richmond Memorial Library
Notes: Note that the roof of the pavilion has tiles that make out the word, "Bath House".

Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Notes: This image was taken before the roads were paved in 1914. This is one of the earliest images in the historic photograph collection.

Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Notes: This image was taken from across South Main Street, possibly at Mary Hall's funeral. Note the location of the old barn, and the amount of room between the Tavern and Rt. 66 then, compared to now.

Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Notes: This image shows an enlarged dining addition by Ben Prout added in the 1950s.

Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Notes: This image shows the rear of the Tavern complex when the restaurant was owned and operated by John and Dicka Matsikas.

Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Notes: In 1981, the restaurant closed, and the building was abandoned. In 1985, a new owner began restoration of Tavern, but had to remove all the attached outbuildings due to structural failures. By 1986, the restoration was complete, a new mall was attached to the rear of the original Tavern structure, and the restaurant reopened.

Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Notes: In 1981, the restaurant closed, and the building was abandoned. In 1985, a new owner began restoration of Tavern, but had to remove all the attached outbuildings due to structural failures. By 1986, the restoration was complete, a new mall was attached to the rear of the original Tavern structure, and the restaurant reopened.

Address: 3-5 East Hampton Road
Contemporary Building Name: Marlborough Tavern
Historic Building Name: Colonel Elisha Buell House
Present Use: Restaurant
Historic Use: Residential, Tavern
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: c. 1760, 1740 (Assessor), mid-1980s
Notes: In 1981, the restaurant closed, and the building was abandoned. In 1985, a new owner began restoration of Tavern, but had to remove all the attached outbuildings due to structural failures. By 1986, the restoration was complete, a new mall was attached to the rear of the original Tavern structure, and the restaurant reopened.

Address: 231 North Main Street
Contemporary Building Name: Charles Hall Gallery, Marlborough Arts Center and Museum
Historic Building Name: Dance Hall, Hall’s Package Store
Present Use: Gallery / Arts Center
Historic Use: Package store, dance hall, recreational hall
Architectural style: Vernacular
Date: c. 1940s
Notes: The building was originally built in 1920, according to the assessor's office. It was originally the dancing pavilion, and then in 1952, Charlie Hall opened a package store. It closed in the mid-1980s, and the building was left empty until 1999, when the Marlborough Arts Center and Museum purchased the property, and in 2004, moved the building back from the road, and began renovations. The assessor now gives the property a construction date of 2005.

Name: The Good Will Club
Date of image: c. 1920
Significance: Mary Hall, who became the first female lawyer in Connecticut, later founded the Good Will Club, an organization which housed young, wayward boys. She also founded a camp in Marlborough, where these young men would come for two weeks. This image shows some of the club members in front of the "chow hall". It was originally located on East Hampton Road / Route 66, about where the Liberty Bank is today.
Sources: Collection of the Marlborough Historical Society
Notes: Today, the Good Will Club is still in operation as is known as the Boys and Girls Club of Hartford.

Address: 77 South Road
Contemporary Building Name: 77 South Road
Historic Building Name: George T. Lord House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Residential
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1740-1780 (Baber), c. 1745 (Keith), 1750 (Assessor
Description: In the front elevation, first floor, the central door, which is off center to the south, is flanked by two 6-over-6 windows on each side. Two added gabled dormers are in the lower slope of the gambrel rood at second-floor level. A former square central chimney is missing. On the south side elevation, a 6-over-6 window is followed by a small 6-over-6 window with the pattern repeated at second floor. A small four-pane attic window is in the gable peak.
Significance: The George T. Lord House is one of the few gambrel-roofed 18th century buildings in Marlborough. Its relatively isolated works effectively with its surviving range of historic barns to give a good sense of a historic Marlborough farmstead. While at one time this grouping was the norm, it has now become rare. (See also 180 Jones Hollow Road.) The fact that the door is not centered is curious, but might be explained by interior arrangements. The Keith survey (c. 1935) describes the interior: "No front stairs; back stairs are original. Three fireplaces with sunken hearths. Dutch oven in old kitchen. Chair rail in south front room. Featheredge wainscot in dining room. At least two panel doors in ell. No summer beams." The size of the window openings is relatively small, suggesting that they may be the original size, as contrasted to the later enlarged openings found in many 18th century Connecticut houses. At the time of the Keith survey, the owner was Byron S. Lord, following in the footsteps of his great grandfather. Baber states that at one time a shed was a blacksmith shop.
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.
Notes:

Address: 127 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 127 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Ryan House, Shevchenko House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1716 (Realtor), 1955 (Assessor
Description: 127 Chapman Road is a two and a half story, center chimney colonial with a gable roof. The five bay front facade includes 6-over-9 windows. Sidelights flank both sides of the front door. It includes wide chestnut floorboards and a massive stone fireplace. The four bedrooms are proportional, with a front stairway from the front hall, and a back stairway from the kitchen. It currently sits on 75 acres with outbuildings.
Significance: 127 Chapman Road was moved from School Drive when the Elmer Thienes School was built. It was restored in 1955, and attempted to use as much original material as possible. Since it moved and was restored, the assessor shows it's construction date as 1955, and therefore was not included in the 1978 and 1998 historic structure surveys.
Sources: Hartford Courant, Real Estate Section G, September 8, 2006. pp. G4-G5.
Notes: Joseph Giggey, member of the now defunct Marlborough Historical Society noted that this house was moved from School Drive, and that it was known as the Ryan House. Since it was moved from its original location, was probably another reason it was not included on surveys. However, it should be included in the 1935 survey done by the Federal Writers' Project (notation below.)
Keith, Elmer D., director. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project, Census of Old of Distinctive Buildings in the State of Connecticut. c. 1935.

Address: 127 Chapman Road
Contemporary Building Name: 127 Chapman Road
Historic Building Name: Ryan House, Shevchenko House
Present Use: Residential
Historic Use: Farmhouse
Architectural style: Colonial
Date constructed: 1716 (Realtor), 1955 (Assessor
Description: 127 Chapman Road is a two and a half story, center chimney colonial with a gable roof. The five bay front facade includes 6-over-9 windows. Sidelights flank both sides of the front door. It includes wide chestnut floorboards and a massive stone fireplace. The four bedrooms are proportional, with a front stairway from the front hall, and a back stairway from the kitchen. It currently sits on 75 acres with outbuildings.
Significance: 127 Chapman Road was moved from School Drive when the Elmer Thienes School was built. It was restored in 1955, and attempted to use as much original material as possible. Since it moved and was restored, the assessor shows it's construction date as 1955, and therefore was not included in the 1978 and 1998 historic structure surveys.
Sources: Hartford Courant, Real Estate Section G, September 8, 2006. pp. G4-G5.
Notes: Joseph Giggey, member of the now defunct Marlborough Historical Society noted that this house was moved from School Drive, and that it was known as the Ryan House. The photo was taken c. 1900. Since it was moved from its original location, was probably another reason it was not included on surveys. However, it should be included in the 1935 survey done by the Federal Writers' Project (notation below.)
Keith, Elmer D., director. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project, Census of Old of Distinctive Buildings in the State of Connecticut. c. 1935.