Whiting Homestead

Whiting Homestead
Location 291 North Main Street, West Hartford, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°46′50″N 72°44′50″W / 41.78056°N 72.74722°WCoordinates: 41°46′50″N 72°44′50″W / 41.78056°N 72.74722°W
Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built 1790
Architectural style Colonial
Governing body Private
MPS Eighteenth-Century Houses of West Hartford TR (AD)
NRHP Reference # 87001291[1]
Added to NRHP August 3, 1987

The Whiting Homestead is a historic house at 291 North Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney, and a center entrance. The main entrance is framed by a molded architrave with ears, and the cornice at the roofline is dentillated. The house was probably built c. 1790 by Gurdon Saltonstall Whiting, and is one West Hartford's few surviving 18th-century houses. It is particularly notable for its largely intact and extensive interior wood paneling.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 1987.[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Whiting Homestead". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-12-06.