Ellington Center Historic District is an

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in the

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of Ellington, Connecticut that was listed on the

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in 1990. The historic district encompasses most of Ellington Center, including the town green 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 and work by Nelson Chaffee. The Ellington green is largely open space with tall shade trees. A

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

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, three contributing sites, 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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, occupies a brick building constructed in 1949 to replace a structure that was constructed in 1852 as a one-room schoolhouse and later expanded. Hall Memorial Library, a Neo-Classical Revival building built of

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and

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, is one of the largest buildings in the historic district. The historic district also includes two churches. The district is notable for its well-preserved examples of Federal-style architecture from the early 19th century, as well as other historic buildings dating from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.

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