Built c. 1648 Area 8,500 m² | NRHP Reference # 85001824 Added to NRHP 23 August 1985 | |
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Location 19 West Ave., Essex, Connecticut Similar Essex Historical Society, Connecticut River Museum, The Griswold Inn, Valley Railroad, Ivoryton Playhouse | ||
The Pratt House is a historic house at 19 West Avenue in Essex, Connecticut The main block of the house, dating to 1732, is a 2 1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof and a large central chimney. Attached to this block are two older structure, estimated to date to c. 1648 and 1702, both with gambrel roofs. The building's interiors are well-preserved. Six generations of the Pratt family, who were among the first English settlers of the area, resided in this house from 1701 to 1915, when it converted into a tenement house in 1915. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, the year it was acquired by Essex Historical Society.
The society offers thirty-minute tours from 1-4 every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday during the summer.