Hyland House Museum

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Hyland-Wildman House
Hylandhouse guilfordct.jpg
Hyland House Museum is located in Connecticut
Hyland House Museum
Location84 Boston St., Guilford, Connecticut
Coordinates41°16′57″N 72°40′43″W / 41.28250°N 72.67861°W / 41.28250; -72.67861Coordinates: 41°16′57″N 72°40′43″W / 41.28250°N 72.67861°W / 41.28250; -72.67861
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1713 (1713)[1]
ArchitectParmelee, Isaac
Architectural styleColonial
Websitehttp://hylandhouse.org
Part ofGuilford Historic Town Center (ID76001988)
NRHP reference No.76001989
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 26, 1976[2]
Designated CPJuly 6, 1976

The Hyland House Museum or Hyland-Wildman House is a historic house museum at 84 Boston Road in Guilford, Connecticut. Built in 1713, it is one of the town's best-preserved houses of that period. It has been open to the public as a museum since 1918, under the auspices of a local historic preservation group. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[2] The house features Colonial-era furnishings and artifacts.

Description and history[]

The Hyland House is located a short way east of Guilford's central town green, on the north side of Boston Street just east of Graves Avenue. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, stone central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with small-pane diamond-lighted windows arranged symmetrically around the center entrance. The entrance is simply framed, with a four-light transom window above. The rear roof face extends to the first floor, giving the house a classic New England saltbox profile. Its interior is noted for its decoratively chamfered girts, believed to be one an early example of this type of decoration.[3]

The house has long been ascribed a construction date of about 1660, when builder George Hyland is thought to have built a house on this property.[3] However, tree-ring dating conducted on its major timbers dates its construction to about 1713 or soon afterward, likely by the then-landowner, Isaac Parmelee.[1] The house underwent an extensive restoration in 1917 by the architectural historian Norman Isham.[3] The restoration was funded by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now Historic New England.

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References[]

  1. ^ a b http://www.shorelinetimes.com/articles/2015/02/19/news/doc54e209fa4507d620879383.txt
  2. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. ^ a b c "NRHP nomination for Hyland-Wildman House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2018-09-19.

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