Quaker Hill Historic District (Waterford, Connecticut)
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Quaker Hill Historic District is a historic district
in the town of Waterford, Connecticut
that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 2002.
The district is a very irregularly shaped district that generally runs along Old Norwich Road. It includes the center of the historic Quaker Hill neighborhood. It excludes non-historic properties, including entire streets, of modern-day Quaker Hill.
The district includes 109 elements, of which 92 are contributing buildings, over a 102 acres (41.3 ha) area. It also includes 16 non-contributing buildings and one non-contributing site. Properties included in the district are: numbers 3 and 5 on Caroline Court; 3 Northwood Road; 2, 11, and 17 on Quaker Hill Green (Old Colchester Road); 2 Richard's Grove Road; 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 15 Rosemary Lane; and 54 parcels on Old Norwich Road ranging from numbers 91 to 209.
The original Quaker Hill was a community of dispersed farmsteads. No colonial buildings survive in the district.
The collection of buildings is architecturally significant.
Contributing properties in the district include:
Historic district (United States)
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...
in the town of Waterford, Connecticut
Waterford, Connecticut
Waterford is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. It is named after Waterford, Ireland. The population was 19,152 at the 2000 census. The town center is listed as a census-designated place .-Geography:...
that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 2002.
The district is a very irregularly shaped district that generally runs along Old Norwich Road. It includes the center of the historic Quaker Hill neighborhood. It excludes non-historic properties, including entire streets, of modern-day Quaker Hill.
The district includes 109 elements, of which 92 are contributing buildings, over a 102 acres (41.3 ha) area. It also includes 16 non-contributing buildings and one non-contributing site. Properties included in the district are: numbers 3 and 5 on Caroline Court; 3 Northwood Road; 2, 11, and 17 on Quaker Hill Green (Old Colchester Road); 2 Richard's Grove Road; 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 15 Rosemary Lane; and 54 parcels on Old Norwich Road ranging from numbers 91 to 209.
The original Quaker Hill was a community of dispersed farmsteads. No colonial buildings survive in the district.
The collection of buildings is architecturally significant.
Contributing properties in the district include:
- the Christopher Green House, a GeorgianGeorgian architectureGeorgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...
style house dating from 1794, is the only stone building in the district.
- the Benjamin Green house is a Colonial style house.
- the John Rogers House, perhaps from 1782
- Quaker Hill Baptist Church
- Red Lion Tavern
- Alexander House
- Glassbrenner House, c. 1900, a Queen Anne/Colonial Revival 188 Old Norwich Road
- Quaker Hill School, a large brick building with two-story pilasters
- Quaker Hill Firehouse, from 1927
- Ester Blum House, c. 1920, a four-squareAmerican FoursquareThe American Foursquare or American Four Square is an American house style popular from the mid-1890s to the late 1930s. A reaction to the ornate and mass produced elements of the Victorian and other Revival styles popular throughout the last half of the 19th century, the American Foursquare was...
at 93 Old Norwich Road
- John Burch House, c. 1800, 95 Old Norwich Road
- James Moore House, c. 1860, a Gothic RevivalGothic Revival architectureThe Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
cottage at 97 Old Norwich Road