John Wilson House (Jewett City, Connecticut)

	John Wilson House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	29-31 Ashland St., Jewett City, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°36′21″N 71°58′50″W / 41.60583°N 71.98056°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1781
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP reference No.	85001827
Added to NRHP	August 23, 1985

The John Wilson House is a historic house at 29–31 Ashland Street in the borough of Jewett City in the town of Griswold, Connecticut. Built about 1781, it is significant locally as a fine example of Georgian residential architecture, and as the home of John Wilson, a leading local industrialist of the late 18th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

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The John Wilson House is located in the village of Jewett City, on the south side of Ashland Street at its junction with Hill Street. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, two chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main facade has a slightly projecting center section, marked by two-story pilasters, a detail repeated at the building corners. A pair of doors are topped by an open gable pediment with heavy brackets. The interior has been altered in some significant ways to facilitate conversion to a duplex, including the removal of its original central chimney.^[2]

The house was built c. 1781–82 by John Wilson, an early settler of Jewett City who married the daughter of Eliezer Jewett. Wilson was a significant early industrialist in Jewett City, establishing a fulling mill in 1790 and incorporating the Jewett City Cotton Manufacturing Company in 1815. His house, originally a center-chimney plan, was originally located up the street at the corner of Main and Ashland Streets. It was moved a short distance in the 1860s by Alfred Young, the agent for the Slater Mills, then the area's largest mill. It is the only surviving house associated with either man.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for John Wilson House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-04.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for John Wilson House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-04.

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