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Dr. Henry Skelton House is a historic house at 889 South Main Street in
Southington, Connecticut Southington is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 43,501. Southington contains the villages of Marion, Milldale, and Plantsville. Geography Southington is situa ...
. Built about 1748, it is a well-preserved example of colonial Georgian architecture. 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 1989.


Description and history

The Dr. Henry Skelton House is located south of the village center of Southington, at the northeast corner of South Main Street and Buckland Street. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central brick chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with windows placed with slight asymmetry around a center entrance. The entrance has a period board door with strap hinges; it and the first floor windows (which are unusually tall for the period) are topped by a wooden stringcourse that serves as a
lintel A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. In the case of w ...
. A leanto section (apparently integral to the main body construction) extends to the rear, giving the house a
saltbox A saltbox house is a gable-roofed residential structure that is typically two stories in the front and one in the rear. It is a traditional New England style of home, originally timber framed, which takes its name from its resemblance to a woode ...
profile. The side gable peak sections are finished in decorative Queen Anne style cut wooden shingles. The house was built about 1748 for Southington's second doctor, Henry Skelton, who was born in England in 1688. The tall windows on the first floor are probably a later Greek Revival modification, and the building at one time sported a full-width Italianate porch.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Southington, Connecticut __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Southington, Connecticut. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and historic district (United States), districts on the National Register of Histor ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Skelton, Dr. Henry, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Colonial architecture in the United States Houses completed in 1748 Houses in Southington, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut 1748 establishments in Connecticut