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History of the Society. The Castle: A Cornwall Love Story. Talk and Book Signing by Jeffrey Jacobson. Saturday, April 11. Cornwall Town Hall, 26 Pine Street. Over the course of the past 50 years, following the death of Charlotte Martin in 1961, the Castle has been a private country retreat for a number of owners, one of whom added a helipad to the property. The Castle's most recent owner, hedge fund manager Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher, purchased the Castle for $5.9 million in 2000. Free, donations welcome.

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: Architecture

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The Enos Kellogg House is a two story (plus attic), 2,800 square foot saltbox farmhouse. The house faces the terminating end of Ponus Avenue Extension, a road that has evolved from a Native American trail between Norwalk and New Canaan known as “Ponasses Path”, into a street connecting the two towns, and finally into a dead-end as a result of construction of the Merritt Parkway adjacent to the property. While no original windows remain on the first or second floors, the likely original front door remains.

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: Artifacts and Documents

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What do you do when you find pieces of clay pipes, redware, stoneware, pontiled bottles and 19th century pottery in an area that is just about to be sealed in by foundation repairs? Dig, dig, dig. It appears that construction of a Greek Revival side entrancde into the house provided a perfect opprtunity to dispose of some household trash. If only the Comstocks treated their garbage with more care, I might have found something intact. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Attic and Basement Tours. THE VIEW FROM HERE.

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: Property Tour

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Other Structures on Property. A timber framed structure located to the west of the dwelling house was constructed in the late 18. Century or early 19. Century, as evidence by its raised plate construction and evidence of spoon bit augering in open mortises. Victorian era photographs of the property show the structure in use as a barn. Three cattle stanchions remain in place, anchored into a concrete pad inscribed 1917. Other Associated Structures and Resources. In a personal interview with the current ow...

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: May 2014

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May 02, 2014. House Cousins and Old Photos. Last week I got one of those great, out-of-the-blue emails that I always hope the old house gods will send my way. Given how happy I was a a couple of years ago when we got a brief visit from a man who had worked as a gardener on our property in the 1940s, you can imagine how exciting it was to hear from an honest-to-goodness direct descendant of Enos Kellogg, himself. Enos Kellogg House in the 1880s? Happily, even while spending all the livelong day working on...

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: Old House Television - Daryl's Restoration Over-Hall

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August 26, 2014. Old House Television - Daryl's Restoration Over-Hall. My new favorite TV show comes courtesy of one my favorite 70s/80's music acts - Daryl Hall (aka the guy from Hall and Oates without the bitchin' mustache). Web show (and profiled on Episode 9 of the Essex House season of This Old House). Of course, the show contains the requisite coterie of interesting characters - the guitar-tech turned project supervisor, and the gravel-voiced carpenter. Refreshingly, though, every one of them a...

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: Evolution of House

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Century houses, the Enos Kellogg House has been repeatedly expanded over the years through a series of additions. The additions to the Enos Kellogg House are as follows:. Early in the history of the house, an addition was made across the back (east) of the kitchen, effectively bumping out the rear wall of that room by just over 6.5 feet. The old rear wall was removed, exposing the framing posts that had previously marked the back wall of the house, and a new exterior wall was installed. At an indetermina...

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: February 2015

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February 26, 2015. The House in Pictures: 1890 - 2014. It occurred to me recently that I had never posted in one place all of the old pictures of the Enos Kellogg House that have come to us in various ways over the past fourteen years. So, I sat down and tried to establish a chronology of the images in our collection. While I knew the dates of the most recent photos, dating the earlier pictures required some detective work (and a lot of "circas"). Another picture from Enos Kellogg's great-times-5 grandda...

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: July 2013

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July 21, 2013. Enos Kellogg Barn Restoration - Overview of the Project. For anyone who is interested, I thought that I would post a brief overview of what restoring our c.1784 barn will actually entail. For the sake of clarity, I will break out the work by each of the three barn bays. 65279;. Raising a bent in Witness. OK, with that digression out of the way, herewith is what needs to happen on our barn:. Replace northeast corner post with new hewn white oak post. Tenon repair on mid post. Likely tenon...

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The Enos Kellogg Homestead - Restoring an 18th Century Connecticut Home: The House in Pictures: 1890 - 2014

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February 26, 2015. The House in Pictures: 1890 - 2014. It occurred to me recently that I had never posted in one place all of the old pictures of the Enos Kellogg House that have come to us in various ways over the past fourteen years. So, I sat down and tried to establish a chronology of the images in our collection. While I knew the dates of the most recent photos, dating the earlier pictures required some detective work (and a lot of "circas"). Another picture from Enos Kellogg's great-times-5 grandda...