John Wilson House (Jewett City, Connecticut)
The John Wilson House is a historic home at 29–31 Ashland Street in Jewett City, Griswold, Connecticut. Built around 1781–82, it is a fine example of Georgian residential design and was the home of John Wilson, a leading local industrialist of the late 18th century. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The house is 2 1/2 stories tall and made of wood, five bays wide with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. The front has a slightly projecting center section with two-story decorative supports on the corners, and a pair of doors topped by an open gable pediment with heavy brackets. The interior has been altered to function as a duplex, and the original central chimney was removed.
John Wilson, an early Jewett City settler who married Eliezer Jewett’s daughter, built the house. He was an important local industrialist, starting a fulling mill in 1790 and helping form the Jewett City Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1815. The house was originally located at the corner of Main and Ashland Streets but was moved a short distance in the 1860s by Alfred Young, the agent for the Slater Mills, then the area’s largest mill. It is the only surviving house connected with either Wilson or Young.
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