NRHP Reference # 83001274 Year built 1765 | Area 14 ha Added to NRHP 26 May 1983 | |
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Location Main St. and Indian Hill Ave. to river, Portland, Connecticut Architectural styles Greek Revival architecture, Victorian architecture | ||
Indian Hill Avenue Historic District is a 35-acre (14 ha) historic district in Portland, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It includes Greek Revival and Late Victorian architecture. When listed, the district included 17 contributing buildings (as opposed to 15 non-contributing buildings), two contributing sites and one contributing object.
Among the contributing buildings are eight from the 1700s, including the Thomas Stevenson House was built c. 1766 and the Abiel Cheney-George Lewis, Jr., House built c.1785.
The listing boundaries "were chosen to reflect the patterns of historic settlement, insofar as they are known. The river forms easily delineated borders on the north and west, and Main Street was taken as the eastern boundary because its character is predominantly 19th-century, reflecting a later period of growth in the area's history than the largely 18th-century Indian Hill settlement. The boundaries of the district include all of the hypothetical extent of burials as posited by the report of the Public Archaeology Survey Team, as well as coinciding closely with the boundaries of the Wangunk tract sold in 1765."