Samuel Smith House (East Lyme, Connecticut)

The Samuel Smith House is a historic house at 82 Plants Dam Road in East Lyme, Connecticut. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1979. It is a 1-1/2 story gambrel-roofed Cape style house, with clapboard and shingle siding, a five bay facade, and a large central chimney. Its oldest portion was built c. 1700, and the main block reached its present size c. 1730. The house was built on land that had been granted to Thomas Bull, one of the founders of Hartford, for his service in the Pequot War of 1637. In 1692 Thomas Bull's sons sold the land to Nehemiah Smith, Jr. In 1698 Bull transferred it to his second son, Samuel, who built this house near the Niantic River.