New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1921, Page 18

DRY REVIEWED BY DWN WHO SEARCH PAPERS ABOUT OLD HOMESTEADS to Be a flerground ays Before uch al glon were was the of women N the y of discussion to the first in yeurs as subject meveral e found the learned, the by ne torn Amer- the rom the the Moore the Winchell hell built it in m one gener he last the three malden and Fannile, ry expert hope paper ln at a Winchell was a prod the the land from by ing bk car- hear upon later was mem- Kensington ouse. e is belleved the hill north Bauer on Four ought to have thaniel Cole was the sec- dah Hart, and t 1740. Noth- med of it the red house the Robbins d by one of Henry Chot- early as bn Built. houses were Vells, the old rallroad dam, S, we all It In 1758 Lodge Tradition of the Ma- says | eral e and | rallroad, | fore North escape of the its the . of the for into burning, chimney heating, Fugl- since been de- | Pr. Wells was @ four wsilver @ Kensington ey were in use munion serv- | 03. Dr e place it was orth uilt the niels’, where rles H. Risley id on the road Bustavus Upson me of Nathan- ral Selah Hart Major Gideon Nov. 14, 1793 ome. number of 0 next twenty- ake a journey ® of tho parish omes of pecu pter. The John puse torn down t owner, New- pne of our old- e of its build- lohn Lee mar- a Hart (Wil- r. Lydia Hins- in John Lee “e now rt, was built me time as the Willard’'s halt I Hart, whose x These two bne far out Into art of the par on. To us it m 1t must have jloneering. (The 24 Mr Hart's 1800.) Place, n as the Lang- and ooecuplied M. Griswold, is not the oldest n town he jy stood neare: Chapel buila- t now the ell fired feet to the use. The main in the rear, old red clap- wrought nalls he present cov- fter the present -called hese “to owned occu- Later, west, Wells | { ard house | many pp | ually generation an almost known, two or 1% the Carter pectable lived in it ing is not known Williams, vorthy foreign the thinks of it ‘undesirable’” three place people, and present home of It was generations ago, ind two very maiden sisters as a class re- named Car- The date of its build- but the builder and it has had sev- families in it. The he railroad opposite the Jdwara Cowles house, which because )ximity to the track became sirable as a home, was built by Robert Barrett, father of Mrs. Milo Hotchkiss, one of the well-to-do and men of the parish, at about time with the Cowles housc Cowles knew of forty-two fam- who had lived in this st of them during the years after railroad built, of course t-Scoville Marriage. Hart was married to daughter of Ezra Sco- o lived in the large house still r close to the road a little dis- north of Stocking's corner Ev- this must have been before but nothing definite ibout it Oliver Hart where Deacon Willlam and the Hart family rec- of him as a land farm extended from the »uth in front of house, west to mountain, and has an history Oliver Hart was son of Matthew Hart, who is bur- fed in Christian Lane When the mi- gration toward the south and west be- gan, Hult Strong, one of the deacons of the church, when the building at Mott's Corners was in use, went to Blue Hills, it has been impos- to and Matthew Hart's married him Then her son, marrying Mary Scoville. built to as the Willlam dled in 1812, and widow lived on for twenty-four years longer, the farm being cared for by Ashbel Dickinson, son of Moses Dickinson, who Hved a mile further north at what is known as the Ed- mund Warner's place, and gave the land for the West cemetery from his farm Upon her death, Mrs. Hart's farm, by her husband’'s will, since they had no children, became the operty of Ashbel Dickinson. He wag for many vears chorister of the Konsington church, and a number of interesting old psalm books which be- longed to him are in good condition to this day Two of his daughters mar- ried well-to-do men, and he willed his estate to a malden aughter, Eliza. Villiam Upson had married her niece, and in 1858 he went to live at the Dicknson home, managing the farm and bringing up his family of five children the Miss Dickinson's will left all her estate to him, the second timo this had been conveyed in this way to a man not a legal heir, but a faithful and trusted caretaker Stanley Place intercsting old house, the Stanic as the Alling occupied Ly Deacon Stanly and his wife for later by Charles N. of Mrs. R. A. Wooding. and his wife lived there ter was Samuel across the leading the same Mr house, was n 1766 Mary e, wi tandin Oliver Scoville, tance idently built house 1750 \n be it the ‘uson lived learned house speak road run large Sherman » top of the interesting the where sible learn idow Ollver, the U"pson house referred place. He his farm Another merly for- Place, Hon'e- known now known stead vas Hezekiah as year Alling. fathe Mr. Alling N e | Mass. | 18 not known, until their death up their family house, which is off New Britain, is said the sam architectural Miles Standish house and there broughtl of five children This the high road Qn‘ to be built upon' plan as the in Duxbury, ! The exact age of this house | but one of the cham- bers is wainscoted with that were a part of the ws the church at Mott's Corn which was torn down in 1773, and a 2w church dedicated December 1, 1774 Those who are famillar with the records of the stormy days of the se tion in the church will remember that there are references to parts of the whurch building being taken away by *iounl and the story of these pancls spicy toich to those old In this house there are four In one of these the and pot hooks still At the left of this fireplace is an old Dutch oven Deacon Stanley was a ve pfous man, and as rigid in his notions of right and wrong as any of the old Puritans. He was fond of talking upon religions subjects, often at such great length as to tire | his hearers. Deacon Stanley’s an- cestor, John Stanley, was onec of the twenty-nine men who sign2d the petition dated October 16, 1705, re- questing the general assembly to grant a settlement at Great Swamp. In the northwest part of the parish, other interesting old homes are; the Norman Warner house, whose date we are unable to learn, but which is one of the best-preserved and niost attractive of our old hous the Cornwell house, now owned ahd occupied by Isaac E. Alling; the old | Seth Hooker place, puilt by William | Hooker, which must be one hundred and fifty years old; the old Edwards @ house a little farther south., and the Squire Allyn house, where Willard I. Alling now lives A short distance east of this is the old Baldwin house. | This also is owned by Willard L Alling. Another old home is the George J. Heoker place which is situated a little to the east of the Cornwell house on the Farmington turnpike Home of Hosea Atwood. | Another house in West Lane dis- trict which should be mentioned is the one peculiarly built on the side of the hill opposite the West Lane school, now made over into a resi- dence. This house was the home of Hosea Atwood and a large family of children, two maiden sisters, Marie and Lorena, having a large number of patrons in the tailoring business for many years. The house is one story jgh at the front, and two-story at the rear. Sheldon Moore Place. the Kensington church are! five old houses worthy of our atten-: tion, the Sheldon Moore place, built by Matthew Hart, son of the Matthew Hart who is buried in Christian Lane, about 1759. This family seems to have had the “westward, ho!" spirit. | This is the house now occupied dur- ing the summer by Isaac Porter, and near it Mr. Porter has saved, by buy- ing it, another historic home, the| birthplace of James Gates Perctval. | { | | | ne rersons, gives a records fire plac original crane hang Near This house was built probably about 1790 by the father of the poet, James Percival, who had daughter of Matthew Hart. On the street known in the old days as Brandy Lane, now Kensington Road, the Edward Cowles house was | built In 1776, the Cornwell house by | the same man in 1774, and both are | very well preserved and look as though they would be habitable for another century. Norton Home Built in 1800. The beautiful home of our Miss Norton was built in 1899 by Gideon' Dr. married a Willilams, and is one of the treasures from the old days. Crossing over again to Four Rod Highway, we must notice the house built by Rev. Benoni Upson, D. D., about 1780, into which he moved with his young wife when only a single room was finished and plastered, where they had a large family, and the scholarly man with his frugal and refined wife was a wonderful example to the parish to which he ministered for many years. Then comes the home of Gen. Selah Hart, now the residence of Mr. J. C. Bauer and his daughters. It was built just after the close of the Revolutionary war, and has been so well cared for that it has the appear- ance of a more recently constructed house. In his will the general left one-half the house and one-half of each of the two barns to his wife, the other half to the widow of his brother, Cyprian Hart. The division was very specific, one barn being di- vided by the ridge from north to south, his wife to have the east side, the other divided from east to west, his wife having the south part. But neither house nor barn was harmed by the split, and through the years it has remained one of our most beau- tiful and still elegant country homes. Home of Bertha Warren. One other is left to enumerate the gem of all, in many respects, and too well known to need lengthy com- ment—the home of Bertha Warren. Built in 1759, by Rev. Samuel Clark, HYOME| (PRANOUNCED HIGH-0-ME] [£ munmrr: Catarrh There is no reason on earth why people should continue to suffer trom disgusting catarrh; from snuffies, hawking and bad breath when Hyomei is sold on the mo ture no pay plaa. No stomach dosing with Hyomel; you breathe in this pleasant g-'- killing air through a pocket baler and reach and heal m D inch of the inflamed membrane. Complete outfit includes imbaler. Leading druggists everywhere. S Dickinson Drug Co. 169-171 Main Strect. A Complete Range of New LOWERED PRICES PREVAILS AT OUR Annual February Sale Of FURNITURE, RUGS and GLENWOOD RANGES Our many friends always look forward to this semi-annual event with confidence in the genuineness of the reductions offered—and we can assure you that we have lowered prices this time beyond any previous sales. esent prices are lower than market costs justify and it is de- your advantage to make your purchases while these bar- of brick sald to have beem brought from England. With bread hall straight through the house, ceilings of a height unknown in .these days, with wonderful windows and various other unusual features, and with the grounds laid out with terraces and formal beds for flowers, ed the admiration of generation after generation of passers-by. it has excit- What these homes have meant to the spirit and soul of Kensington, we, perhaps, mate. thing to our children and to our new citizens of other ancestry is our pres- ont are still too near to esti- That they shall mean some- responsibility and privilege. $998 Women'’s hx;h and Oxfords. Battleship Grey With Grey Cloth Tops, Grey Buck Oxfords, Brown Satin Oxfords, White canvas Louis heels. Reduced to $1.98. oy Women’s High Shoes, “The Coffee of GoodTaste 47} cents apound Two Pair for the Former Price of One Come Tomorrow and Get Your Share of These Wonderful Bargains Oxfords and Pumps, in Gun Metal and Black Kid. Brown Kid, Gun Metal with Grey Tops, Battleship Grey with Pearl Grey Brown Kid with Brown Cloth Top, Tops, White Washable Kid with Louis and Military heels; broken sizes. $5.00 == $5.00. Shoes Made to sell at Reduced ta &7.08. . Women’s High Shocs, Oxfords and Pumps, Havas Brown Kid, Brown Buck Tops, Cloth Tops, Pat Leather, Lace and Button, Grey Sense Heels, Sense Heels. Buck and Black Buck Tops, with Louis Heels, Vici Kid,’ Common Tan Side Grey Buck Tops, Heels and Vici Kid and Common Broken sizes. Made to sell up to $6.85. Now Lace, with Louis '3 mSale in Men’s Shoes OQffers Wonderful Bargains. Tan English Bal, Buck Top, Tan English Bal, Patent Button Buck Top, also in’ Lace, Patent Leather Blucher and Button, now reduced to $3.98. —————————— Women’s Rubbers. All styles and shapes. Reg- ular Prices, $1.00 and $1.25. Sale Price....._ Women’s Black and Grey Juliets. Regular $2.25 lnd $2.50 kind. also Tan Button, Women” Wool Heather Hose, which is now all the rage. Regular Price, $2.55. Sale Price. Women's AllCelar Juliets. Regular Pnu $2.50. Salo Pric e e o all colors. Price, $2.50. BUY Men’s Work and Dress Shoes, Men’s Heavy Tan Work Shees, also Gun Mectal Button, Patent Button, and Patent Lace in Bal and Bluch- er Styles. Now reduced to $1.98. Boys Greatly Reduced Little Gents’ Hi-Cut Storm Shoe: heavy soles. Sale Price. $2.98 Gun Metal Button; sizes 1 Reduced to $2.95 e e e e Boys’ Shoes in Gun Metal, Pa ent Leather Lace and Blltlcn' 034 to 1315; regular price 33.45. Reduced to. Boys’ to 414, NOW! Men’s Dress Shoes in Black Bl er and English Bal, Tan and Tan Bal; also in Bu Lace, Tan and Black Lace Blucher Oxfords; odd lots broken sizes. Now reduced $2.98. Men’s Manchester Hose Regular price, 4 for 31. Sale Price, 4 for_... Men’s Wool Haose. Re~ular Price, $1.75. Sale Price. Men’s Rubbers; first ; most all styles. Rezular $1.50 kind. Sale Price.. Men’s Spats. Regular Price, $2.00. Sale Price. W omen’s One-Strap Comfort Oxfords. 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