An Architectural Monographs On Historic Houses of Litchfield
An Architectural Monographs On Historic Houses of Litchfield
Charles Matlack Price
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The pioneers were agriculturists, and the first industries were the grist-mill, sawmill and black- smith shop; the first tradesman, a clothier. The grist-mill, it seems, was distinctly a community institution, and while farmers waited for their bags of corn to be ground, they read notices of town meetings posted on the door of the mill, gossiped, traded, and indulged in theological dis- cussions which, if not profound, were at least intense and heated. ulating to the imagination that one is rel...uctant to turn the page. The oldest house now standing in Litchfield is the Wolcott house, on South Street, built in 1753 by Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and sometime gov- ernor of the State. It was in this house that Mr. Wolcott entertained General Washington and Lafayette. Architecturally, it represents one of the least pretentious as well as one of the most typical examples of the early New England dwelling. The inland towns and villages of New England being, for the most part, less prosperous than THE WHITE PINE MONOGRAPH SERIES THE REEVE-WOODRUFF HOUSE, LITCHFIELD, CONNECTICUT Built in 1773.
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