511 Town Hill Rd., New Hartford, Connecticut. County/parish: Litchfield.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 2002. NRIS 02000334.
5 contributing buildings.
Esperanza is a historic country estate at 511 Town Hill Road in New Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1835 and extensively enlarged and restyled in 1893, it is a high-quality example of Colonial Revival architecture on an original Greek Revival frame. Julie Palmer Smith (sometimes referred to as Julia Palmer Smith), one of its original owners, was a noted author of Victorian romance novels. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, at which time it remained in the hands of Smith descendants.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132354805