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The Elisha Bushnell House is located in western Old Saybrook, on the north side of Boston Post Road ( United States Route 1) opposite its junction with Baum Avenue. It is a -story timber-framed structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. It has a shedroof ell extending to the right, and a rear sloping section that ...
Sep 10, 2015 · One of the five oldest houses in Connecticut is the Bushnell Farm house at 1445 Boston Post Road in Old Saybrook. It began as a two room, one story, thatch roofed post and beam house built by the Elder Joshua Bushnell. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Elisha Bushnell.
The property was the home and farm of Nehemiah Bushnell & Sarah Ingham Bushnell in the early 1700's. When Nehemiah died, his son, David Bushnell, sold his inheritance to pursue his education, going on to invent the first submarine. It is believed the barn was built in the early 1700s & used for agriculture, including horses & cows.
It began as a two room, one story, thatch roofed post and beam house built by the Elder Joshua Bushnell. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Elisha Bushnell House and J. Frederick Kelly, in his classic Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut (1924), calls it the Older Bushnell House. The house was expanded over ...
- Aaron Blatchley 1785-1789
- Elisha Mann and John Henderson 1789-1791
- Lyman Munger 1791-1792
- Nathaniel Allis, Jr. 1793-1825
- Nathan and Chloe Bushnell 1825-1858
- Cornelius Bushnell and His Heirs 1858- 1920
It is not known why Aaron Blatchley built two houses in the same area at about the same time, and it is not known which house was built first. We do know from the 1790 Federal Census record that Blatchley was living in the house on the northwest corner of the Boston Post Road and Scotland Avenue when the census was taken. The Allis-Bushnell House w...
Aaron Blatchley transferred the deed of the house to Elisha Mann on December 16, 1789. A week later, Mann sold the house to John Henderson (Mann’s father-in-law), who owned the house until January 29, 1791. It appears that Mann was a “go-between” in the deal, but a careful examination of the 1790 Federal census record tells us that Elisha Mann and ...
The February 2, 1791, deed selling the east part of the house to Lyman Munger is interesting because it gives us a good description of the house. Munger’s share of the house included “the east front room and bedroom and milk room with the chamber above and the cellar below.” There is no mention of a kitchen. If the Mungers were to live in only half...
Only four years after moving to Shelburne, Massachusetts, the Allis family decide to return to East Guilford and take up residence near their old family homestead. They purchased the Allis-Bushnell House on October 26, 1793. Nathaniel Jr. brought a new wife, Abigail Bushnell, back to East Guilford, and it seems that Nathaniel Sr. had also re-marrie...
Nathan Bushnell Jr. was born on July 18, 1779, the son of Nathan Bushnell and Ester Lord of Saybrook, CT. On September 21, 1805, Nathan married Anna Chapman, also of Saybrook; their first daughter, Electa Ann [spelling taken from the probate record], was born a year later. In 1807 the young family came to East Guilford and purchased the house on th...
After the death of Chloe Bushnell, the family used the house as a place to gather in the summers. It is said that Nathan Townsend Bushnell, brother of Cornelius, lived in the house on and off. The 1880 census record lists another brother, Henry Lord Bushnell, living in the house. In 1900, Erickson Bushnell, son of Cornelius, is listed as living in ...
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SPECIFIC DATES 1678 BUILDER/ARCHITECT Elisha Bushnell STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Older Bushnell House is one of the few seventeenth century houses in Connecticut whose authenticity is confirmed and whose original fabric clearly has integrity. The 1678 date for this house is confirmed
