Windham Center Historic District
Windham Center Historic District | |
Location | CT 14 and CT 203, Windham, Connecticut |
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Coordinates | 41°42′8″N 72°9′40″W / 41.70222°N 72.16111°W |
Area | 205 acres (83 ha) |
Built | 1750 |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Greek Revival, Colonial, Italianate |
NRHP reference No. | 79002655[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 4, 1979 |
Windham Center Historic District (
General description
Windham Center is a village in the New England town of Windham in northeast Connecticut. The District is centered on the village green. During the town's first 125 years, this district was the most thickly settled part of the surrounding area. The village was selected as the seat of Windham County, when the latter was created in 1726, and prospered from the legal activity around the courthouse that was constructed. In the following three decades Windham Center grew to be a prosperous administrative, commercial and agricultural center.[2]
The village green today is bordered by the Congregational Church, the Post Office, a former inn, multiple houses, and the original
Windham was the home of two of Connecticut's Revolutionary pioneers, Eliphalet Dyer and Jedediah Elderkin; of craftsman J. Alden Weir; and of legal scholar Zephaniah Swift. The first volume of Swift's work, A System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut (1795), was the first legal treatise in America and concerns the constitution of the state and differences between English and American common law.
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Windham Center Historic District". Gombach Group. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ^ "History | Windham Free Library". www.windhamfreelibrary.org. Retrieved June 25, 2018.