Comfort Starr House

Comfort Starr House
Map
General information
TypeHouse
Architectural styleSaltbox
LocationGuilford, Connecticut
Completed1695
Governing bodyPrivate
Technical details
Structural systempost-and-beam
End elevation of Comfort Starr House illustrating the distinctive roof line

The Comfort Starr House, located at 138 State St., Guilford, Connecticut, is a classic saltbox house with an added lean-to.[1] According to a dendrochronology study, completed in 2014, the house was built in 1695.[2]

About

The house derives its name from Comfort Starr (1666–1743), a tailor, who bought the house from the original builder, a Guilford signer (settler), Henry Kingsnorth, in 1694.[3] The house is still in its primitive state. It is considered, by some, to be one of the oldest wooden timber frame houses still used as a private residence in the U.S. today.[4][5]

Comfort Starr's grandfather, also named Comfort Starr, was an English physician who left Kent, Kingdom of England, on the ship Hercules in 1635 and settled in Cambridge, Colony of Massachusetts Bay.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Bing.com/maps retrieved 7-02-2009
  2. ^ "Using Tree Rings to Date Historic Guilford Buildings". Guilford, CT Patch. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  3. ^ a b Starr, Burgis Pratt (1879). A history of the Starr family of New England, from the ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr of Ashford, County of Kent, England, who emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1635 ; ... Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood & Brainard.
  4. ^ Connecticut: A Guide to its Roads, Lore and People, Federal WPA Project, 1938 page 165 [1]
  5. ^ HABS Comfort Starr House retrieved on 2009-05-13

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