The Robbins Stoeckel House is a historic house on Litchfield Road in
Norfolk, Connecticut
Norfolk () is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,588 at the 2020 census. The urban center of the town is the Norfolk census-designated place, with a population of 553 at the 2010 census.
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. Built in 1907, it is a distinctive design of the architect
Alfredo S.G. Taylor
Alfredo S. G. Taylor (1872–1947) was an architect, of the New York firm Taylor & Levi, which he co-founded with Julian Clarence Levi.
He was educated at Harvard College, class of 1894, and received his B.S. from Columbia Graduate School of Arc ...
, featuring some of his signature elements. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982.
Description and history
The Robbins Stoeckel House stands south of the village center of Norfolk, on the west side of Litchfield Road just south of the Mountain View Inn. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a dormered gable roof, and an exterior finished in stucco and wooden shingles. A gambrel-roofed ell extends from the north side. A fieldstone chimney rises on the front facade, near the junction between the original main block and the ell.
The house was built in 1907 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a
New York City
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-based architect who spent many summers in Norfolk. Taylor is credited with more than thirty commissions in Norfolk.
This house exhibits a number of signature Taylor elements, including windows with small panes in both square and diamond configurations, the half-round window in the end of the gambrel gable, and the position of the entrance at the crook of the ell. The ell, although it was added in the 1920s for a subsequent owner, was also designed by Taylor.
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See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Litchfield County, Connecticut
References
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Houses completed in 1907
Houses in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Norfolk, Connecticut