The Barnes-Frost House is a historic house at 1177 Marion Avenue in the
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Southington, Connecticut
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. Built about 1795, it is a high quality local example of late Colonial architecture, with a history of ownership by members of prominent local families. It was listed on the
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in 1989.
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Description and history
The Barnes-Frost House is located on the west side of Marion Avenue, north of its junction with Old Mountain Road (Connecticut Route 322
Route 322 is a state highway in west central Connecticut, running from Wolcott, Connecticut, Wolcott to Southington, Connecticut, Southington.
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). It is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a clapboarded exterior, side gable roof, large central chimney, and a centered entrance. The entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a frieze with a band of molded ellipses. This detail is repeated on the window lintels and in a frieze band below the roof line. The chimney is not original to the house, but is an 18th-century structure recovered from a house in Cheshire
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. The interior retains some original features, notably wide pine floors.[ and ]
Built c. 1796, the house is significant in part because it is a well-preserved example of Colonial architecture
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, and also because it was home of the locally prominent Barnes and Frost families. Philo Barnes, son of the locally prominent tavernkeeper Asa Barnes and a major local landowner in his own right, purchased the house in 1810, and it was occupied by three generations of Barneses. In 1881 it was purchased by Levi Frost, also from a prominent local family that owned a local factory. The house remained in the Frost family until 1916.
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Houses in Southington, Connecticut
Houses completed in 1795
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut
British colonial architecture in the United States
Historic district contributing properties in Connecticut