Built 1781 Opened 1781 Architectural style Georgian architecture | NRHP Reference # 85001827 Area 2,024 m² Added to NRHP 23 August 1985 | |
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Location 11 Ashland St., Jewett City, Connecticut | ||
The John Wilson House is a historic house at 11 Ashland Street in the borough of Jewett City in the town of Griswold, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, two chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main facade has a slightly projecting center section, marked by two-story pilasters, a detail repeated at the building corners. A pair of doors are topped by an open gable pediment with heavy brackets. The house was built c. 1781-82 by John Wilson, an early settler of Jewett City who married the daughter of Eliezer Jewett. Wilson was a significant early industrialist in Jewett City, establishing a fulling mill in 1790 and incorporating the Jewett City Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1815. His house, originally a center-chimney plan, was moved a short distance in the 1860s by Alfred Young, the agent for the Slater Mills, the area's largest mill. It is the only surviving house associated with either man.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.