Quaker Hill Historic District (Waterford, Connecticut)

Quaker Hill Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Red Lion Tavern (1824) in 2011
Location	Roughly along Old Norwich Rd. from Richards Grove Rd. to Mohegan Ave. Pkwy., Waterford, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°24′12″N 72°6′35″W / 41.40333°N 72.10972°WCoordinates: 41°24′12″N 72°6′35″W / 41.40333°N 72.10972°W
Area	102 acres (41 ha)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, et al.
NRHP Reference #	02000337[1]
Added to NRHP	April 11, 2002

Quaker Hill Historic District is a historic district in the town of Waterford, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

The district is a very irregularly shaped district that generally runs along Old Norwich Road. It includes the center of the historic Quaker Hill neighborhood. It excludes non-historic properties, including entire streets, of modern-day Quaker Hill.^[1][2]

The district includes 109 elements, of which 92 are contributing buildings, over a 102 acres (41 ha) area. It also includes 16 non-contributing buildings and one non-contributing site.^[1][2] Properties included in the district are: numbers 3 and 5 on Caroline Court; 3 Northwood Road; 2, 11, and 17 on Quaker Hill Green (Old Colchester Road); 2 Richard's Grove Road; 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 15 Rosemary Lane; and 54 parcels on Old Norwich Road ranging from numbers 91 to 209.^[2]:2

The original Quaker Hill was a community of dispersed farmsteads. No colonial buildings survive in the district.^[2]

The collection of buildings is architecturally significant.

Contributing properties in the district include:

• the Christopher Green House, a Georgian style house dating from 1794, is the only stone building in the district.^[2]:4
• the Benjamin Green house is a Colonial style house.^[2]
• the John Rogers House, perhaps from 1782
• Quaker Hill Baptist Church
• Red Lion Tavern
• Alexander House
• Glassbrenner House, c. 1900, a Queen Anne/Colonial Revival 188 Old Norwich Road
• Quaker Hill School, a large brick building with two-story pilasters^[2]:5
• Quaker Hill Firehouse, from 1927
• Ester Blum House, c. 1920, a four-square at 93 Old Norwich Road
• John Burch House, c. 1800, 95 Old Norwich Road
• James Moore House, c. 1860, a Gothic Revival cottage at 97 Old Norwich Road

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  Benjamin Green House (1736 or 1800)

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  Chistopher Green House (1794)

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  Quaker Hill Baptist Church (1835)

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  American Queen Anne style (1900)

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  American Craftsman (1926)

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  Bungalow (1930)

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  Dutch Colonial Revival (1936)

See also

• Quaker Hill, Connecticut
• National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut

References

1. Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Cunningham, Jan (June 5, 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Quaker Hill Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. and Accompanying 26 photos from 2001 (indexed page 17 of main registration PDF)