Sanford–Curtis–Thurber House
Sanford–Curtis–Thurber House | |
41°25′31″N 73°15′49″W / 41.42528°N 73.26361°W / 41.42528; -73.26361 | |
Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
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Built | c.1800 |
Architectural style | Georgian |
NRHP reference No. | 07000557[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 21, 2007 |
The Sanford–Curtis–Thurber House, also known as James Thurber House, is a historic house at 71 Riverside Road in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown, Connecticut. It is a Georgian style house built in c.1780 that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
The house is a large, rural Georgian style farmhouse built for a prosperous farmer named Thomas Sanford (1732-1814), one of the first settlers in the Newtown area. The family farm was sold in 1824 to Hezekiah Curtis (1796-1866).[2]
The house was purchased in 1931 by Althea Thurber, the first wife of author and humorist James Thurber (1894–1961), and it was used as a weekend or holiday home. It was ostensibly a place where Althea could have dogs, and the family dogs inspired and appeared in Thurber's humorous sketches in The New Yorker magazine.[2]
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Newtown, Connecticut
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Kate Ohno (July 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Sanford–Curtis–Thurber House / James Thurber House". National Park Service. (including two historic photos) and Accompanying 12 photos, exterior and interior, from 2006
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