Ellington Center Historic District is an historic district in the

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Ellington, Connecticut Ellington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. Ellington was incorporated in May 1786, from East Windsor. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 16,426. History Originally the area in what is now Ellington was named ...

that 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 ...

in 1990. The historic district encompasses most of Ellington Center, including the

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and buildings that face the green or the streets that lead to it. and It includes the Hall Memorial Library. Architecture represented includes the

Colonial Revival style The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

and work by Nelson Chaffee. The Ellington green is largely open space with tall shade trees. A

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...

monument on the green identifies the site of the first meetinghouse in Ellington Center, built in 1739. The National Register listing included 103 contributing buildings, three

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, and two

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. It also included 26 non-contributing buildings, six non-contributing structures, and three non-contributing objects. The district does not include commercial property east of the green, the town hall and its annex, Center School, and several houses within its general boundaries. Center School, a

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elementary school, occupies a brick building constructed in 1949 to replace a structure that was constructed in 1852 as a

one-room schoolhouse One-room schools, or schoolhouses, were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain. In most rural and s ...

and later expanded.Postcard of Center School
, Treasures of Connecticut Library website, accessed December 24, 2010 Hall Memorial Library, a Neo-Classical Revival building built of brick and

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, is one of the largest buildings in the historic district. The historic district also includes two churches.

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