Built 1781 Designated NHL December 20, 1989 Phone +1 860-688-8717 Added to NRHP 6 October 1970 | NRHP Reference # 70000707 Opened 1781 | |
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Address 778 Palisado Ave, Windsor, CT 06095, USA Similar Vintage Radio & Communi, Northwest Park, Courtyard Hartford Windsor, Windsor Historical Society, John Trumbull Birthplace | ||
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The Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, also known as Elmwood, is a historic house museum at 747 Palisado Avenue in Windsor, Connecticut. It was the home of the American lawyer and politician Oliver Ellsworth from 1782 to 1807, and was designated a National Historic Landmark because of this association. Ellsworth (1745–1807) helped draft the United States Constitution, served as the third Chief Justice of the United States, and was a United States Senator from Connecticut.
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The Georgian clapboarded house includes a portico with Tuscan columns supporting a gable roof and two brick chimneys near the gable ends of the wood-shinqled roof. The name Elmwood derives from the thirteen elm trees Ellsworth planted in honor of the thirteen colonies.
Elmwood was visited by two sitting Presidents: George Washington (on October 21, 1789) and John Adams (October 3, 1799). The house was occupied by the Ellsworth family until 1903 when it was given to the Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution, Inc The homestead was restored in the late 1980s and early 1990s and is now a museum and Matthies Hall can be used as a meeting location between May and October.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.