| 词条 | Somersville Historic District |
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| nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | image = Ye Olde Blacksmith, Somersville CT.jpg | caption = Ye Olde Blacksmith | location= Roughly, along Main, Maple and School Sts., Pinney and Shaker Rd. and Quality Ave., Somers, Connecticut | coordinates = {{coord|41|58|52|N|72|29|24|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Connecticut#USA | area = {{convert|155|acre|ha}} | architecture= Colonial, Greek Revival, Post-Medieval English | added = April 13, 1995 | governing_body = Private | refnum=95000401[1] }} The Somersville Historic District encompasses the historic components of the mill village of Somersville in western Somers, Connecticut, United States. The district is centered on a mill complex on the Scantic River, which divides the district. The most significant years of development were between about 1835 and 1935, although the area has a history (and surviving structures) dating to the 1760s. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1] The Mill itself has since burned down and as of October 2018 is currently open field, although the canal structure remains in place. {{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}Description and historyThe town of Somers was settled in the 17th century as part of the Agawam Plantation (now Springfield, Massachusetts), was separately incorporated in 1739, and transferred to the jurisdiction of the Connecticut Colony in 1749. The area that became Somersville village grew around a sawmill and gristmill established on the Scantic River, but remained little more than a rural crossroads village until 1835. In that year, Spencer & Chaffee were the first in a series of proprietors to use the mill privilege for the production of textiles. In 1853 the business was acquired by Holmes & Reynolds, which expanded the mill. It operated through the American Civil War, producing satinet, but closed a few years later. In 1879 the mill was purchased by the Somersville Manufacturing Company, which built the present three-story brick building, and greatly expanded and modernized its production capacity over the next decades. The company also built large numbers of surviving mill housing beginning about 1885, including a significant number of multiunit and tenement-style buildings.[2] The historic district is roughly T shaped, the base of the T extending along Maple Street on either side of the mill complex. At its northern end it meets Main Street (Connecticut Route 190), which forms the top of the T, extending westward form the Maple Street junction and eastward just beyond School Street (whose section between Main and Maple Streets is also included in the district). Most of the district consists of vernacular residential architecture built for housing mill workers, although there are a few houses that date to the area's 18th-century period. The district also includes 19th-century retail buildings, two churches, and a school.[2] See also{{stack|{{portal|NRHP}}}}
References1. ^1 {{NRISref|2009a}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=95000401}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Somersville Historic District |date=November 10, 1994 |author=Jan Cunningham |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NRHP url|id=95000401|title=Accompanying 22 photos, from 1994 (see photo captions and map pages 24-25 of text document)|photos=y}} External links{{commons category-inline|Somersville Historic District}}{{National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut}} 6 : Historic districts in Tolland County, Connecticut|Somers, Connecticut|Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut|National Register of Historic Places in Tolland County, Connecticut|Colonial Revival architecture in Connecticut|Greek Revival architecture in Connecticut |
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