The Norman Sweet Boardman Property is located in the

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

East Haddam, Connecticut East Haddam is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut. The population was 8,875 at the time of the 2020 census. History Until 1650, the area of East Haddam was inhabited by at least three Indigenous peoples: the Wangunk, the Mohegan and the Ni ...

. Its building was built in c.1860, added to the

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in 1983. The house is named as the Luther Boardman House, in the 1980 historic district nomination; it is named as the Norman S. Boardman House in another source. The house is

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

in style. It is two-and-a-half-story frame house with a Mansard roof. It has elaborate cornice brackets in accordance with Italianate style, and a three-story tower. Its main, front porch has heavy square columns with arched openings. With The

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

in New York City holds a catalog of the Luther Boardman & Sons, of East Haddam, who were manufacturers of silverware.

References

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