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The Stephen Grannis House was a historic house at 1193 West Street in Southington, Connecticut. Built about 1812, it was a good local example of Federal period 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, and was demolished sometime thereafter.


Description and history

The Stephen Grannis House stood on the east side of West Street (
Connecticut Route 229 Route 229 is a state highway in the western Greater Hartford area of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It runs north–south from Interstate 84 in Southington to U.S. Route 6 in Bristol. Along the way, it intersects Route 72 in the Forestville ...
), a busy through street in northwestern Southington, between Curtiss and Churchill Streets. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and exterior finished in clapboard-like asbestos siding. Its front facade was five bays wide, with symmetrically placed one-over-one sash windows on either side of a center entrance. The entrance was topped by a patterned rectangular glass transom window, and a flat projecting cap with dentil moulding. The windows were topped by similar caps without moulding. The house was built in 1812 for Stephen Grannis, and is a good vernacular expression of Federal period architecture. Family tradition states that this house, and a similar one at 1137 West Street, were both built by Grannis' father for his two sons on the occasion of their marriages. It remained in the hands of Grannis' descendants, part of the locally significant interrelated Grannis, Andrews, and Tolles families, until the late 20th century. The house has been demolished since its listing on the National Register in 1988; the vacant land is still within the Tolles family.


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:Grannis, Stephen, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Houses completed in 1812 Houses in Southington, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut