Building Name (Common)

Elam Benedict Barn

Building Name (Historic)

Elam Benedict Barn

Address

214 Hattertown Road
Newtown

Typology

• English

 

Designations

• Local Historic District
• National Register

Field Notes

New owner planned to rebuild/restore this barn. Pre-application for 2009 grants.

House at 214; barn across the road at 215. House construction date: 1814 Located in the Hattertown Historic District; built by Isaac Patchin, a carpenter from Easton. Hat manufacturer Elam Benedict moved here from Danbury in 1821. Currently fire-damaged. Sources: "Touring Newtown’s Past: the Settlement and Architecture of an Old Connecticut Town;" Mary Mitchell and Albert Goodrich, Newtown Historical Society, Newtown, Connecticut, 1996, p. 74-75, 122-3 pre-1826 House Inventory. Newtown Assessor’s Records.

Hattertown National Register District Nomination No. 96001461.