Spring Hill Historic District (Mansfield, Connecticut)

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NRHP Reference # 08000500		Added to NRHP 10 October 1979

Location Roughly along Storrs Rd., Spring Hill, Mansfield, Connecticut Area approx. 40 acres (16 ha)

The Spring Hill Historic District is an approximately 40-acre (16 ha) historic district in the Tolland County, Connecticut town of Mansfield. It was defined as a Connecticut state historic district in 1972 and, with the same borders, was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The district, roughly speaking, runs along Storrs Rd. within the community of Spring Hill. The listing includes 13 contributing buildings.

The district includes two of the four houses that had made up Spring Hill as a distinct community around 1800:

957 Storrs Road, at listing known as the Altnaveigh Inn, c.1776

974 Storrs Road, a cottage, c.1740

One other building was destroyed by fire and the other one was demolished. Its other contributing buildings are mostly with Greek Revival architecture, from that style which rose in popularity in the 1830s. These include:

Crain House, 928 Storrs Road, from 1838

Shumway House, 934 Storrs Road, from 1863

Shubael Freeman Farm, 3 East Road, from 1835

Bradley Sears Farm, 950 Storrs Road, c.1870, in Italianate, owned by UConn, Storrs

Town Hall, 954 Storrs Road, from 1935 Colonial Revival, and earlier Town Hall from 1842, Greek Revival (moved back)

Luther Kingsley House, 958 Storrs Road, from 1740

Artemus Storrs House, 974 Storrs Road, from 1852, Greek Revival attributed to Edwin Fitch

References

Spring Hill Historic District (Mansfield, Connecticut) Wikipedia

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