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The Valentine Wightman House was a historic house at 1112 Mount Vernon Road 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 situ ...
. It was built around 1800 and was added to the
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in 1989. It has apparently been demolished.


Description

The Valentine Wightman House stood in western Southington, on the west side of Mount Vernon Road at its junction with Whitman Road. It was a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade was five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by
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windows and narrow moulding, and topped by a peaked lintel. The gable ends slightly overhung the sidewalls. The interior included three period fireplaces and some original wide flooring and carved wooden paneling. Its location is now occupied by a modern single-story house. The property also includes a 19th-century barn and farm outbuildings. The house was probably built about 1800 for Valentine Wightman, the son of Reverend John Wightman, whose house still stands further south on Mount Vernon Road and who was the second settled Baptist minister in Southington. The house was notable primarily for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of late Georgian architecture.


See also

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wightman, Valentine, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Colonial architecture in the United States Houses completed in 1800 Houses in Southington, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut