Amos Sheffield House, corner of Water and Wall Streets, Stonington Borough, looking southeast

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:129

Title

Amos Sheffield House, corner of Water and Wall Streets, Stonington Borough, looking southeast

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1890 to 1900

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

View of the corner of Water and Wall Streets, Stonington Borough, looking southeast. The Amos Sheffield House is in the center. A double stairway leads to a center doorway, in front of which a woman is standing. What appears to be a central chimney can be seen at the roofline. Visible to the right is a building fronted with classical columns supporting an overhang, identified as the Arcade.

Genre

Subject

Geographic Subject

Main Street (Stonington, Conn.)

Union Street (Stonington, Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : cyanotype ; 4 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Lifestyle

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note	Title supplied by cataloger. The Amos Sheffield House was built in 1765 by a successful Stonington merchant. It is considered a fine example of Early Georgian domestic architecture. The house is said to have been raised to accommodate basement shops at some later date. The Arcade was built in 1830 as a commercial structure. It housed shops well into the twentieth century.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1979.140.7

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Amos Sheffield House, corner of Water and Wall Streets, Stonington Borough, looking southeast

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