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.