Spirit of the Holidays on OLD MAIN STREET

Connecticut’s Phelps–Hatheway House has both Colonial and high-style Federal rooms. During the winter holidays, the house is appropriately decorated with balsam and fir, pinecones and berries.

Caryn B. Davis

ON A QUIET, tree-lined section of Main Street in the historic town of Suffield, Connecticut, sits the Phelps–Hatheway House. The five-bay central block (early 1760s), with a large center chimney, originally had a gable roof. It is flanked by a Federal period three-bay section on the north that was completed in 1795. There is a one-and-a-half storey ell on the south side, which is the first structure, dating back to the mid 1700s. Each of the three sections now has a gambrel (broken-pitch) roof and is sheathed in wood clapboards. The Georgian-period center block is beautifully if austerely finished inside with high-quality woodwork. The formal entry is at the center of the block, sheltered by the Federalperiod Doric portico. Oliver Phelps, who purchased the house from the original owner’s son,…

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Early Homes (Digital) - 1 Issue, Falll - Winter 2017

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