Hatheway House
- Also Known As: Phelps also Burbank House
- Address: 55 S Main St
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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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. |
Particulars for Hatheway House: | |
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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 |
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