Container List Record
Metadata
Object ID number |
2013.04.204 |
Container |
Box 7 |
Description |
Typed half page stating the Clapp House at 1846 Main Street is a Greek revival built about 1857 by John Clapp. In pencil is written 1846 Main Street and Brihan. John Clapp bought from Erastus Ellsworth an earlier house that was lived in by cabinet maker Jonathan Birge. Clapp demolished the older house and built this one about 1857. In 1891, it was bought by C. Z. Parmelee who owned the East Windsor Hill store and post office. About 1916, local inventor Ellsworth Sperry bought the house and remodeled it adding a rear dining room with cabinets and paneling built by Wallace Nutting. A south porch was added and two small rooms were combined to create a large living room, changing the chimney arrangement. The house had a cistern in the cellar for keeping butter, cream and milk. |