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The Whitfield House served primarily as the home for Henry Whitfield, Dorothy Shaeffe Whitfield, and their nine children. [5] The house also served as a place of worship before the first church was built in Guilford, as a meetinghouse for colonial town meetings, as a protective fort for the settlers in case of attack, and as a shelter for travelers between the New Haven and Saybrook colonies. [7]
Henry Whitfield (c.1590-c.1657) was a Puritan minister who was a founder of Guilford, Connecticut and the first pastor there. His house, the Henry Whitfield House (c. 1639), is one of the oldest surviving American houses.
Henry Whitfield House: Guilford: 1639 Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899. [1] Buckingham House: Milford: 1640 Core dates to 1640 modifications in 1725 and 1753. NRHP. [2] [3] Feake-Ferris House: Greenwich: 1645 Core dates to 1645 modifications in 1689. [4] Thomas Lee House: East Lyme: 1660
The district includes Connecticut's oldest stone house, the Henry Whitfield House, built in 1639 and now a museum. Whitfield was the town's first minister, and his house was where Congregationalist services were held prior to construction of the first colonial meeting house. The town green, whose shape is virtually unaltered since it was laid ...
Henry Whitfield House: Henry Whitfield House. September 25, 1997 : Guilford New Haven: The oldest house in Connecticut, built in 1639 ...
The city of New Haven is the location of 70 of these properties and districts, including 9 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed separately, while the 207 properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county, including one National Historic Landmark (Henry Whitfield House), are listed here. Three sites appear in both lists.
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Henry Whitfield House: Guilford: CT 1639 Residential Oldest stone American Colonial house; [9] oldest house in Connecticut. Lower Swedish Cabin: Upper Darby: PA 1640 c. Residential One of the earliest extant examples of Swedish log construction in the United States, believed to be the oldest building in Pennsylvania. [10] Richard Sparrow House ...