Sumner-Carpenter House
Sumner-Carpenter House is located in Connecticut
Sumner-Carpenter House
Sumner-Carpenter House is located in the United States
Sumner-Carpenter House
Location333 Old Colony Rd., Eastford, Connecticut
Coordinates41°54′11″N 72°4′1″W / 41.90306°N 72.06694°W / 41.90306; -72.06694
Area27 acres (11 ha)
Built1806 (1806)
ArchitectGoodell, Vini
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No.91001854[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 26, 1991

The Sumner-Carpenter House is a historic house at 333 Old Colony Road in Eastford, Connecticut. Built about 1806, it is a well-preserved local example of a rural Federal period residence, augmented by a modest collection of Colonial Revival outbuildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]

Description and history

The Sumner-Carpenter House is located in a rural area east of Eastford center, on the north side of Old Colony Road just west of its crossing of Bungee Brook. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, consisting of a main block and a series of additions. The main block has a hipped roof, with a side gable-roofed ell, apparently built either with or not long after the main block, with a gable roof, and a c. 1900 two story gable-roofed wing to the rear. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by wide sidelights, and topped by a rounded transom and corniced entablature. The window above the entrance is in the Palladian style, with a rounded center window flanked by narrower sashes. The interior retains a number of original features, as well as sensitive reproductions of parts that were seriously deteriorated.[2]

The house was built c. 1806, probably by Vini Goodell who also built the Benjamin Bosworth House, for John Newton Sumner. It is a well-preserved local example of a rural Federal period residence, augmented by a modest collection of Colonial Revival outbuildings. The property was the centerpiece of a typically larger farm property that was one of the town's most successful. One late 19th-century owner, David Carpenter, was active in civic affairs, serving as town selectman and in the state legislature. The house underwent a historically sensitive restoration in the 1970s.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Sumner-Carpenter House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
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