Comfort Starr House

The Comfort Starr House, located at 138 State St., Guilford, Connecticut, is a classic saltbox house with an added lean-to.[1] According to a dendrochronology study, completed in 2014, the house was built in 1695.[2]

See also: List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut
Comfort Starr House
General information
TypeHouse
Architectural styleSaltbox
LocationGuilford, Connecticut
Completed1695
Governing bodyPrivate
Technical details
Structural systempost-and-beam
End elevation of Comfort Starr House illustrating the distinctive roof line

About

The house derives its name from Comfort Starr (1666–1743), a tailor, who bought the house from the original builder, a Guilford signer (settler), Henry Kingsnorth, in 1694.[3] The house is still in its primitive state. It is considered, by some, to be one of the oldest wooden timber frame houses still used as a private residence in the U.S. today.[4][5]

Comfort Starr's grandfather was an English physician of the same name, who left Kent, United Kingdom on the Goodship Hercules of Sandwich boat in 1635 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3] Comfort Starr (1589–1659, the grandfather) was a founder of Harvard College and he is buried in King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.[6]

References
  1. Bing.com/maps retrieved 7-02-2009
  2. "Using Tree Rings to Date Historic Guilford Buildings". Guilford, CT Patch. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  3. Starr, Burgis Pratt (1879). A history of the Starr family of New England, from the ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr of Ashford, County of Kent, England, who emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1635 ; ... Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Hartford, Conn. : Case, Lockwood & Brainard.
  4. Connecticut: A Guide to its Roads, Lore and People, Federal WPA Project, 1938 page 165
  5. HABS Comfort Starr House retrieved on 2009-05-13
  6. Anderson, Robert Charles (2009). "The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634–1635, Volume VI, R–S".

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