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Hillside is a historic house at 310 Litchfield Road in
Norfolk, Connecticut Norfolk () is a New England town, town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,588 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Regi ...
. The house was built in 1908 for an heiress of the
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business fortune, and is one of the most spectacular designs of Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who designed many summer properties in the community. The house was listed on the
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in 1982.


Description and history

Hillside is located south of the village center of Norfolk, on the east side of Litchfield Road. It is set on a lot of , most of which is wooded. The house occupies a ridge site with expansive views facing northwest, at the end of a winding drive at some remove from the road. It is a large Tudor Revival structure, with its basement and first floor built of fieldstone, and the upper level of half-timber and stucco. A central section is flanked by larger wing sections, each topped by a roof that has a gable section above a Craftsman-style jerkin-headed gable end. Its interior includes a large main hall with timbered ceiling in height, and a walkin fireplace and
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. and The house was built in 1908 for Helen Hartley Jenkins, who was heir to the
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fortune. It was designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a
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architect and a principal of the firm Levi and Taylor. Taylor summered in Norfolk, where he is credited with designing more than thirty buildings, many of them summer properties. The property was renovated and added to at the turn of the twenty first by the talented artist and designer Arden Harriman Mason, using the designs of Richard Allen. Mason was the son of artists Frank Herbert Mason and Phyllis Harriman Mason and grandson of banker E. Roland Harriman.


See also

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References

{{National Register of Historic Places Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Houses completed in 1908 Houses in Litchfield County, Connecticut Norfolk, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Litchfield County, Connecticut 1908 establishments in Connecticut