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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1762/00/00 Shem Burbank (or his father Abraham) builds a center chimney home where he and his wife Anna Fitch Burbank will raise nine children. They move an early 18th century, one and a half story structure, to the present site to create a south wing.
1776/00/00 A merchant of British goods, Shem Burbank's business suffers during the American Revolution.
1788/00/00 Oliver Phelps Home Oliver Phelps moves to Suffield where he opens a land office and purchases the house from Shem Burbank.
1794/00/00 Thomas Hayden Architect Phelps commissions the construction of a substantial north wing to be decorated with French wallpaper, wainscoting and dentil cornices. Decorations in the north wing are original with the exception of the Federal room now at the Winterthur Museum.
1794/00/00 Oliver Phelps Owner In Boston, Oliver Phelps buys Louis XVI style wallpaper handblocked in 1788 by Reveillon.
1795/00/00 Asher Benjamin Carpenter Asher Benjamin carves Ionic capitals, from William Pain's Practical House Carpenter, for the entrance of Phelps north wing, late 1794 to early 1795. Practical House Carpenter
1802/00/00 Oliver Phelps Home A depressed real estate market forces Oliver Phelps to foreclose on the property and move closer to his land holdings in Canandaigua, New York.
1965/00/00 Henry Francis du Pont Owner In the 1960s, H F duPont removes the Federal Parlor from the Phelps-Hatheway House and installs it at Winterthur Museum in Delaware.

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Particulars for Hatheway House:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Exploration-settlement
Architectural Style Georgian Architecture
Level of Significance National
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 75001934
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Benjamin,Asher
Architectural Style: Georgian
Other Certification: Additional documentation
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State; National
Area of Significance: Exploration-settlement, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1750-1799
Significant Year: 1762, 1795
Associated People: Phelps,Oliver
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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