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The Patrick Murphy House is a historic house at 345 Palisado Avenue in
Windsor, Connecticut Windsor is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, and was the first English settlement in the state. It lies on the northern border of Connecticut's capital, Hartford. The population of Windsor was 29,492 at the 2020 census. Po ...
. Built about 1873, it is a good example of Italianate architecture executed in brick. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1988.


Description and history

The Patrick Murphy House is located north of the Windsor town center, on the west side of Palisado Avenue (
Connecticut Route 159 Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capita ...
) between Kennedy Road and Old Kennedy Road. Palisado Road is historically the major north–south road on the west bank of the
Connecticut River The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states. It rises 300 yards (270 m) south of the U.S. border with Quebec, Canada, and discharges at Long Island ...
. The house is a two-story brick building, with a low-pitch hip roof. It is basically rectangular, with a slightly projecting rectangular section on the left side. The roof has an extended eave, and there are a few small windows set just below the eave in the attic level. The main facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay, flanked by sidelight windows. A single-story porch extends across the front and around the left side to the projecting section. It has turned posts with decorative brackets at the top, and slender turned balusters. Windows under the porch are of full length, while other windows are set in rectangular openings with brownstone sills and lintels. A two-story ell with porch extends to the rear of the main block, and there is a period carriage house on the property The house was built about 1873; it is one of several Italianate brick houses in Windsor, and makes a part of 19th-century streetscape of the
Palisado Avenue Historic District The Palisado Avenue Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential streetscape in northeastern Windsor, Connecticut. Extending along Palisado Avenue (Connecticut Route 159) between the Farmington River and Bissell Ferry Road, it is a ba ...
.


See also

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


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy, Patrick, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut Italianate architecture in Connecticut Houses completed in 1873 Houses in Hartford County, Connecticut