Oldest Homes in Connecticut

List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut

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• | Henry Whitfield House‎ | Guilford, Connecticut|Guilford| 1639
• |Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899.
• | Loomis Homestead | Windsor, Connecticut|Windsor| 1640-1688
• | Ell from 1640, main house from 1688, oldest wooden house in Connecticut, now Loomis Chaffee School.
• | Thomas Wheeler House | Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgeport| 1644-1680
• | Core from 1644, oldest house in Bridgeport, Black Rock Harbor, residence.
• | Comfort Starr House| Guilford, Connecticut|Guilford | 1645-1646
• | Oldest wooden saltbox residence in Connecticut, oak clapboard in lean-to attic, residence
• | Stanley-Whitman House | Farmington, Connecticut|Farmington| 1660-1724
• | Saltbox house with framed overhang style with carved pendants, now a museum.
• | Thomas Lee House| East Lyme, Connecticut|East Lyme| 1660-1664
• | Began as a one-room house, oldest wooden saltbox still in its primitive state, museum since 1897.
• | Ephraim Hawley House| Stratford, Connecticut|Stratford | 1670-1690
• | Saltbox began as a Cape Cod house|Cape Cod Cottage, riven oak clapboards in lean-to attic, residence.
• | Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum | Stonington, Connecticut|Stonington | 1670-1700| | A working farm for the last 350 years.
• | Nehemiah Royce House
• | Wallingford, Connecticut|Wallingford| 1672 | Saltbox, George Washington slept here in 1775, once a residence for Choate Rosemary Hall.
• | Joshua Hempstead House|Joshua Hempsted House | New London, Connecticut|New London| 1678
• | One of the earliest documented houses in Connecticut, now a museum.
• | Parker House (Old Saybrook, Connecticut)|Parker House | Old Saybrook, Connecticut|Old Saybrook | 1679
• | Deacon William Parker House.
• | Swain-Harrison House| Branford, Connecticut|Branford| 1680-1724
• | Saltbox house with overhang serves as the Branford Historical Society museum.
• | Deacon John Graves House| Madison, Connecticut|Madison | 1685
• | Saltbox saved from demolition and fully restored in 1983 by a private foundation, now a museum.
• | Acadian House (Guilford, Connecticut)|Acadian House | Guilford, Connecticut|Guilford | 1690
• | Saltbox named after the Acadians who lived there following 1755 deportation from Canada.
• | Hyland-Wildman House | Guilford, Connecticut|Guilford| 1690-1710
• | Saltbox with framed overhang, now a museum
• | Thomas Lyon House | Greenwich, Connecticut|Greenwich | 1690
• | Oldest unaltered saltbox house in Greenwich.
• | Meigs-Bishop House | Madison, Connecticut|Madison | 1690 | English tea room.
• | David Humphreys House | Ansonia, Connecticut|Ansonia | 1695-1698
• | Home of the first U.S. Ambassador, now a museum.
• | Hoyt-Barnum House | Stamford, Connecticut|Stamford | 1699
• | Early Cape Cod cottage, Stamford Historical Society museum.
• | Eells-Stow House | Milford, Connecticut|Milford| 1700-1720
• | Served as a hospital during American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War, now a museum
• | Pond-Weed House| Darien, Connecticut|Darien | 1700| Saltbox residence.
• | Samuel Huntington Birthplace| 1700-1722
• | Saltbox home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Connecticut, now a museum.
• | David Ogden House | Fairfield, Connecticut|Fairfield | 1705-1721
• | Saltbox Fairfield Historical Society Museum, listed on the NRHP.
• | John Tyler House (Branford, Connecticut)|John Tyler House
• | Branford, Connecticut|Branford | 1710 | Private residence listed on the NRHP.
• | Buttolph-Williams House| Wethersfield, Connecticut|Wethersfield | 1711
• | Captain David Judson House

Links

• List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut
• XVI. National Historic Landmarks & Site
• XI. Curious Houses, Ruins & Communities