John Wilson House (Jewett City, Connecticut)

John Wilson House
Location 11 Ashland St., Jewett City, Connecticut
Coordinates 41°36′21″N 71°58′50″W / 41.60583°N 71.98056°W / 41.60583; -71.98056Coordinates: 41°36′21″N 71°58′50″W / 41.60583°N 71.98056°W / 41.60583; -71.98056
Built 1781
Architectural style Georgian
NRHP Reference # 85001827[1]
Added to NRHP August 23, 1985

The John Wilson House is a historic house at 11 Ashland Street in the borough of Jewett City in the town of Griswold, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, two chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main facade has a slightly projecting center section, marked by two-story pilasters, a detail repeated at the building corners. A pair of doors are topped by an open gable pediment with heavy brackets. The house was built c. 1781-82 by John Wilson, an early settler of Jewett City who married the daughter of Eliezer Jewett. Wilson was a significant early industrialist in Jewett City, establishing a fulling mill in 1790 and incorporating the Jewett City Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1815. His house, originally a center-chimney plan, was moved a short distance in the 1860s by Alfred Young, the agent for the Slater Mills, the area's largest mill. It is the only surviving house associated with either man.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

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  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for John Wilson House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-04.


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