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The Ashbel Woodward House is a
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. The house is now operated by the Town of Franklin as the Dr. Ashbel Woodward House Museum. The house was built c. 1835, and is a fine local example of a Greek Revival house in a rural setting. It was home for many years to Ashbel Woodward, a local doctor. His descendants gave the property to the state in 1947. The house was listed on the
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on April 8, 1992.


Description and history

The Ashbel Woodward House is located southeast of the village center of Franklin, on the east side of Connecticut Route 32. It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, clapboard siding, a granite foundation, and a pair of brick chimneys. The main entrance is centered on the front, slightly recessed under a Greek Revival surround with pilasters and entablature. The building corners are also pilastered, and the side gable ends have semi-elliptical windows. An ell, apparently original as it shares the foundation with the house, extends to the rear. The property also includes two barns and a third outbuilding that probably functioned as a
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. The interior contains exhibits on local history and an art gallery. The house was built about 1835, on land purchased by Doctor Ashbel Woodward, a prominent local physician, in 1834. Woodward, a graduate of
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, settled in Franklin in 1829, and served as the town's primary medical practitioner until his death in 1885. He was also interested in local history, amassing a collection of historic and prehistoric artifacts, and writing a book-length history of Franklin which was published in 1869. The property was given to the town by his descendants in 1947. File:Woodward, Ashbel, House (extensions) (New London County, Connecticut).jpg, Rear view File:Ashbel Woodward. Line engraving by E. G Williams & Bro. afte Wellcome V0006375.jpg, Dr. Ashbel Woodward


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New London C ...


References


External links


Town of Franklin, look under Museum

Poem with clues to letterbox by Ashbel Woodward Museum


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