Powder House
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- Town:
- Fairfield
- Year of Establishment:
- 1999
- Property Authority:
- Fairfield Historic District Commission
- Link to Commission or Municipal Website:
- Features: Building, stone wall
- Architectural Style:
- Vernacular, Rubble stone masonry with gambrel-roof
- Era:
- 19th Century
The 'Powder House' located behind Tomlinson Middle School, off Unquowa Road, is important in the civic history of the Town. This structure was built at Town expense for the safe storage of munitions in the wake of the War of 1812. The building is 9' 11" wide by 18' 2" long by approximately 10' 5" high and contains two small rooms within. A rubble stone structure covered with a subsequently parged brick vault, the building was 'restored' in 1924 with a rough slate gambrel roof by the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. At the tie it was restores, additional land was acquired and a stone wall was constructed around its lot.
Locally significant but also related to national events, the Fairfield Powder merits special consideration and protection.
[1] District information retrieved from the town website http://www.fairfieldct.org/.
[2] Fairfield Historic Properties Study Committee Report, 1999, SHPO Library, Hartford.
[3] Photograph retrieved from the website www.CTMonuments.net.
Assessors information retrieved from the website www.visionappraisal.com.- Date of Compilation:
- 12/31/11
- Compiler:
- Manjusha Patnaik, CT Trust for Historic Preservation