Supriya Ghosh (Editor)

Josiah Bronson House

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Built
  
1738

Opened
  
1738

Added to NRHP
  
25 February 1982

NRHP Reference #
  
82004356

Area
  
1 ha

Josiah Bronson House

Location
  
Breakneck Hill Rd., Middlebury, Connecticut

The Josiah Bronson House is a historic house on Breakneck Hill Road in Middlebury, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story gabled roof wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a central chimney. Its main entrance is centered on the street-facing facade, with flanking sidelight windows. The house, built 1738, is one of the few 18th-century houses remaining in the town. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The French Army commandeered by Marquis de Lafayette is known to have camped in the area during the American Revolutionary War in 1781 and 1782, due in part to the notoriously steep hill.

References

Josiah Bronson House Wikipedia