Strong House

2382 South St., Coventry, Connecticut. County/parish: Tolland.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 15, 1988. NRIS 87001906.

3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure. 1 contributing object.

From Wikipedia:

Strong House (Coventry, Connecticut)

The Strong House, now the Strong-Porter Museum, is a historic house museum at 2382 South Street in Coventry, Connecticut. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a center entry and two interior chimneys. The oldest portion of the house is estimated to date to 1710, early in the period of Coventry's settlement, and retains a significant number of period features. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is now owned and operated by the Coventry Historical Society as a museum. In addition to exhibits in the house about local history, visitors can tour the carpenter shop, 19th century privy, carriage sheds and barn.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132356048

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