Valentine Wightman House

Valentine Wightman House
1985 photo
Location 1112 Mount Vernon Rd., Southington, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°36′4″N 72°55′32″W / 41.60111°N 72.92556°W / 41.60111; -72.92556Coordinates: 41°36′4″N 72°55′32″W / 41.60111°N 72.92556°W / 41.60111; -72.92556
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built 1800 (1800)
Architectural style Colonial, New England Colonial
MPS Colonial Houses of Southington TR
NRHP reference # 88003112[1]
Added to NRHP January 19, 1989

The Valentine Wightman House was a historic house at 1112 Mount Vernon Road in Southington, Connecticut. It was built around 1800 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1] 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 2-1/2 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 sidelight 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.[2] 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,[2] whose house still stands further south on Mount Vernon Road and who was the second settled Baptist minister in Southington.[3] The house was notable primarily for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of late Georgian architecture.[2]

Site where house stood, in 2018

See also

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 "NRHP nomination for Valentine Wightman House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
  3. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Rev. John Wightman House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-12-09.
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