Built 1759 Designated CP July 31, 1986 Area 2,000 m² | NRHP Reference # 70000702 Opened 1759 Added to NRHP 2 December 1970 | |
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Location Corner of Jay, Hempstead, Coit, and Truman Streets, New London, Connecticut Part of Hempstead Historic District (#86002112) Similar Joshua Hempsted House, Shaw Mansion, Ye Antientist Burial Gr, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London Harbor Li | ||
The Nathaniel Hempstead House, also known as the Old Huguenot House, is a historic house on Hempstead Street in New London, Connecticut. It is a 1-1/2 story stone structure with a gambrel roof. Although the house was built in 1759 by Nathaniel Hempstead, the English grandson of Joshua Hempstead (whose 1678 home stands adjacent), its form and building material are unusual for southern New England in that period, leading to local lore attributing its construction to French Huguenot immigrants. It is possible that laborers who built the house were Acadians resettled to New London after the Expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 1750s. The house is owned by Connecticut Landmarks, along with the 1678 house, operating the pair as the Hempstead Houses museum.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1970.