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STROLL THROUGH GRANBY HISTORY
Spring/Summer 2021   STROLL.   MAPS.    HOMES.

About The Salmon Brook Historical Society Stroll Through Granby History

 

In this time of the pandemic, the Salmon Brook Historical Society has found a way to share Granby's history outdoors. We're calling it a Stroll through Granby History. It's an opportunity to both walk and learn, while being appropriately distanced from each other because it is all done outside.  No one will go inside any of the homes.

 

Granby's central historic district along Salmon Brook Street (Route 10-202) includes about 35 homes or buildings with known stories. Through the month of October (from October 2 to 29) the society is inviting people to stroll from the Salmon Brook Historical Society properties at 208 Salmon Brook Street north to the green and learn about town history as told by 32 of the houses.

 

In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the historical society, the society will place a temporary sign with a picture of the original house in each front yard. In addition to the picture, the posters will include a QR code so walkers can learn about the history of the house and the people who lived in them using their mobile phones or tablet.

What do you need before you begin the October Stroll through Granby History? A QR code reader. Most phones have them, or you can download a QR

_Stroll Through Granby History Map & Hom

Click on the button below for the printable version

code reader from the App Store on your phone or tablet. This is a no-cost app that will allow you to read the QR code on each sign. The QR code will then access the house’s information that is located on the Salmon Brook Historical Society web site. 

 

None of this would have been possible without Peg Gile's concept, management and writing, archivist Carol Laun’s deep knowledge, Howard Berg digitizing pictures, Kathy Morgan spearheading signs, three members of the Granby Camera Club Ed Judge, Jay Harder, and Madeline Catania and social media, QR & web from Jabberhead Agency.

 

We think this is a unique project and are pretty excited about this attempt to get the information from inside the archives of the SBHS out into the community.

GRANBY HOMES

In Order of Map Stroll

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STROLL THROUGH GRANBY HISTORY

May 28th - June 25th
Recommended Timing 8 am - 6 pm

In Celebration of Granby History

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WEED ENDERS HOUSE

208 SALMON BROOK STREET

Part of the SBHS Campus

This small saltbox house was built in 1790 by Moses Weed and given to his son Moses 

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CHAPMAN 

HOUSE

207 SALMON BROOK STREET

The house was built c. 1780. By the 1820 census, Levi Chapman (married to Mercy)

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SMITH-COOLEY

HOUSE

221 SALMON BROOK STREET

An earlier house was probably built on this site before 1788 because that year James

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JEWETT-GILLIN

HOUSE

229 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was also one of a group of houses built about 1830 on a block of land 

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JEWETT-MALTBIE 

HOUSE

235 SALMON BROOK STREET

The original house on this lot was built c. 1750 and was for the first minister in Granby 

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COLTON

HOUSE

251 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was built in 1850, probably by Samuel Benjamin. It was next owned

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JAMES NEWTON LOOMIS

HOUSE

261 SALMON BROOK STREET

This sprawling Italianate structure was built in 1858 for James Newton Loomis who

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GRANBY HOTEL & AVERY PLACE

2 PARK PLACE

The house at 2 Park Place was built in 1805 by Pliny Hillyer, a very prosperous merchant, 

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HOLCOMB-SHATTUCK

HOUSE

254 SALMON BROOK STREET

In 1797 the owner was blacksmith Gurdon Gould. It was sold to Thomas and

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SOUTH CHURCH

ACADEMY & LIBRARY

248 SALMON BROOK STREET

The Academy/library building in this picture was built in 1870 on the location of 

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COOLEY-GODDARD

HOUSE

230 SALMON BROOK STREET

There was a house on this site in 1855 but it was gone by 1869. Then about 1897,

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ABIJAH ROWE HOUSE

208 SALMON BROOK STREET

Part of the SBHS Campus

The Abijah Rowe house is the oldest remaining building from the original Salmon 

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DELIA CHURCH

HOUSE

211 SALMON BROOK STREET

It is not known when this house was built. It is not on the map in 1869 but by the 

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DR. PENDELETON'S

HOSPITAL

225 SALMON BROOK STREET

A simpler version of this house was built between 1869 and 1890 for the Timothy on 

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JEWETT-HOTCHKISS

HOUSE

231 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was built about 1830 and is one of three houses built on Jewett land.

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BUNCE 

HOUSE

239 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was probably built in 1814 for Isaac Phelps, a prosperous farmer, and

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GAINES 

HOTEL

255 SALMON BROOK STREET

In c 1778 records show there was a tavern owned by Pliny Hillyer, in 1822 it seems Isaac

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CIVIL WAR

MONUMENT

GRANBY GREEN

On July 3, 1868, the men of Granby went to the Green to help erect the new Soldiers’

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LOOMIS STORE

#3

258 SALMON BROOK STREET

People of a certain age in Granby still remember the large sprawling building

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ASEL RICE

HOUSE

252 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was built about 1875 by Asel Rice who married Mary Church. Asel played the

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DENNISON CASE

HOUSE

238 SALMON BROOK STREET

The house that was previously on this site was probably built between 1780-1790 for

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GEORGE PETTIBONE

HOUSE

226 SALMON BROOK STREET

At least the rear of this house was estimated to have been built in 1790. The remainder

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COOLEY SCHOOL

208 SALMON BROOK STREET

Part of the SBHS Campus

The Cooley Schoolhouse was built c. 1878 on the northeast corner of East Street and 

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CROCKER 

HOUSE

213 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was built by Jonathan Church in 1816. Jonathan was married to

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THE PARSONAGE

227 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was probably built after 1869 because it is not on the map of that year. It was 

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JEWETT-SMITH-COOLEY

HOUSE

233 SALMON BROOK STREET

This house was built c. 1830 by Mary Jewett Smith and was one of three houses 

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JAMES LEE LOOMIS

HOUSE

245 SALMON BROOK STREET

This imposing house was probably built in the summer of 1861 for Harrison and

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LOOMIS STORE

#1 

259 SALMON BROOK STREET

There were three versions of the Loomis Bros. store. The first store was this one on the

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CASE

HOUSE

4 EAST GRANBY ROAD 

This elegant mansion on the north edge of the town green is a Granby landmark. The 

Loomis Store II and print shop on right.

LOOMIS STORE #2 

AND PRINT SHOP

256 SALMON BROOK STREET

Within a month of the disastrous fire at their first store, at #259 on the west side

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THE REVEREND T. MURPHY

HOUSE

250 SALMON BROOK STREET

The house was built in 1873 for The Reverend Thomas D. Murphy who was the minister 

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SAMUEL BENJAMIN'S CHURCH

234 SALMON BROOK STREET

In 1893 S. J. Benjamin planned to build a church on the Sanford lot, or current 

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