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Parker–Hutchinson Farm

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Built
  
1850

NRHP Reference #
  
82004386

Area
  
3 ha

Architectural style
  
"Cape" farmhouse

Opened
  
1850

Added to NRHP
  
29 April 1982

Parker–Hutchinson Farm

Location
  
Parker Bridge Rd., Coventry, Connecticut

The Parker–Hutchinson Farm is a historic farm property on Parker Bridge Road in Coventry, Connecticut. It includes the Samuel Parker House which dates from 1850. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The listing included an 8-acre (3.2 ha) area with a "Cape" farmhouse, and a number of outbuildings, including a horse barn, a sheep barn, and a shed. There also are foundations of former buildings.

The significance of the property is not for the architecture of its farmhouse, but rather as a remarkably intact site where a number of small-scale industrial enterprises were conducted. The Parkers, and later the Hutchinsons, are documented to have engaged in a significant number of businesses in the 19th century, operating a cider mill, producing both raw and processed wool and flax, and operating a small cooperage and probably also a small woolen hat-making enterprise.

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Parker–Hutchinson Farm Wikipedia