Avery Homestead, Ledyard, Connecticut
The Avery Homestead is a historic house in Connecticut built around 1696 in Colonial style using wood and stone construction. The two-story structure was expanded over centuries and features crafted details including wide wooden floors and large fireplaces that heated most rooms.
The property began as a single-room structure with a thatched roof and was expanded by 1726 to two rooms and two stories, with later additions in the late 1700s. It was restored in 1956 by Amos Avery to recover its 1700s appearance and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The name Avery comes from the family that has lived on this property for many generations. The house is now sometimes used as a hotel, drawing visitors interested in early American farm life and settlement.
The property sits on a gentle hill next to a historic barn and is surrounded by about 100 acres of protected land in a land trust. Visitors can walk the old paths and explore stone walls to gain a sense of farm life from centuries past.
The barn next to the house is an English bank barn style built into a hillside to make it easier to access animals and hay. A nearby pond once served as an ice pond where families would gather ice for food storage before modern refrigeration existed.
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