Jedediah Strong II House

Coordinates: 43°38′44″N 72°24′2″W / 43.64556°N 72.40056°W

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Jedediah II Strong House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	Quechee Main St. and Dewey's Mills Rd., Hartford, Vermont
Coordinates	43°38′44″N 72°24′2″W / 43.64556°N 72.40056°W / 43.64556; -72.40056
Area	less than one acre
Built	1815 (1815)
Built by	Strong, Jedediah II
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	74000272^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 13, 1974

The Jedediah Strong II House is a historic house at the junction of Quechee Main Street and Dewey's Mill Road in Hartford, Vermont. Built in 1815 by a local mill owner, it is a fine local example of a high-style Federal period brick house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1] It now houses professional offices.

Description and history

The Strong House stands in what is now a relatively rural area east of the village of Quechee, at the southwest corner of Quechee Main Street and Deweys Mills Road. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building, with a gabled roof and stone foundation. A period 1+1⁄2-story brick ell extends to the rear (south), to which a modern wood-frame ell has been attached. The main facade, facing Quechee Main Street, is five bays wide, with sash windows set in rectangular openings. The openings on the ground floor are topped by blind arches. The main entrance is set in a wider arched opening, with flanking sidelight windows exhibiting tracery, and a multilight arched transom window above. The interior retains original Federal period woodwork, including paneling, chair rails, and a partially hung circular staircase in the main hall.^[2]

The house was probably built not long after Jedediah Strong purchased the land in 1815. Strong, a descendant of one of Hartford's earliest settlers, was a prominent local landowner who operated a successful sawmill and gristmill nearby.^[2] The house was acquired by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as it was in the vicinity of the North Hartland Dam flood control project. It now houses professional offices.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Courtney Fisher (1974). "NRHP nomination for Stone Village Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-09-02. with photos from 1974

National Register of Historic Places in Windsor County, Vermont

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Government	Damon Hall Fire District No. 2 Firehouse Reading Town Hall
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Religious	Beaver Meadow Union Chapel Cavendish Universalist Church Congregational Church of Ludlow Old Christ Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Residential	Atherton Farmstead Augustus and Laura Blaisdell House Twing Buckman House Rev. George Daman House Dewey House Wentworth and Diana Eldredge House Ezekiel Emerson Farm Farrar-Mansur House Joseph Fessenden House Reverend Dan Foster House Fowler-Steele House Gate of the Hills Daniel Gay House Glimmerstone Greenwood House Harrington House Hartness House Jeffrey House Wales N. Johnson House Juniper Hill Farm-Maxwell Evarts House Lockwood-Boynton House Luce Farm Maple Hill Farm Joseph and Daniel Marsh House McKenstry Manor Meeting House Farm Owen Moon Farm NAMCO Block Old Constitution House Aaron Jr. and Susan Parker Farm Zachariah Spaulding Farm Walter and Sylvia Stockmayer House Jedediah Strong II House David Sumner House John Wilder House

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‡This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state.

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