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The Elisha Pitkin House is a historic house at 173 High Woods Drive in
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. With a construction history estimated to date to 1690, it is one of Connecticut's small number of surviving 17th-century buildings. It was moved to this site in 1955 from its original site in
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, and was listed on the
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in 1979.


Description and history

The Elisha Pitkin House is located in a residential subdivision in northern Guilford, on the south side of High Woods Drive near the cul-de-sac at its eastern end. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a
gambrel roof A gambrel or gambrel roof is a usually symmetrical two-sided roof with two slopes on each side. (The usual architectural term in eighteenth-century England and North America was "Dutch roof".) The upper slope is positioned at a shallow angle, w ...
, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. A single-story gambrel-roofed ell, of greater antiquity, extends to its rear, and a more modern ell extends to one side. The main facade is five bays wide, with sash windows placed symmetrically around the main entrance. The entrance has a broad surround, with fluted pilasters rising to an entablature and cornice above a four-light transom window. The interior retains many original 18th-century features. With The oldest portion of the house, the rear ell, was estimated by
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J. Frederick Kelly to date to 1690, and was probably built by Joseph Pitkin. The main house was built in 1764 by his son Elisha, at which time roughly half of the old structure was demolished, its chimney was incorporated into the new building, and the remaining portion was used as a kitchen ell. Threatened with demolition in the 1950s, it was moved from its original site on Main Street in East Hartford to this location, at which time some of its deteriorated elements were restored.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Haven County, ...
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List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut This article lists the oldest buildings in the state of Connecticut, United States of America. The dates of construction are based on land tax and probate records, architectural studies, genealogy, radio carbon dating, and dendrochronology. Buildi ...


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