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Oliver Ellsworth Homestead
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| Location: | 778 Palisado Avenue, Windsor, Connecticut |
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| Built: | 1740 |
| Architect: | Samuel Denslow; Thomas Hayden |
| Architectural style: | Georgian |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 70000707 |
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| Added to NRHP: | October 06, 1970[1] |
| Designated NHL: | December 20, 1989[2] |
Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, also known as Elmwood, was the home of the American lawyer and politician Oliver Ellsworth from 1782 to 1807. The house is in Windsor, Connecticut. Ellsworth (1745–1807) helped draft the United States Constitution, served as the third Chief Justice of the United States and a United States Senator from Connecticut.
The Georgian clapboarded house includes a portico with Tuscan columns supporting a gable roof and two brick chimneys near the gable ends of the wood-shinqled roof. The name Elmwood derives from the thirteen elm trees Ellsworth planted in honor of the thirteen colonies.[3]
Elmwood was visited by two sitting Presidents: George Washington (on October 21, 1789) and John Adams (October 3, 1799). The house was occupied by the Ellsworth family until 1903 when it was given to the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution. The homestead was restored in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and is now a museum.[4]
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989[2][3].
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