See also: List of the oldest buildings in the United States. This article lists the oldest buildings in the state of Connecticut, United States of America. The dates of construction are based on land tax and probate records, architectural studies, genealogy, radio carbon dating, and dendrochronology. Buildings on the list are limited to the First Period of American architecture (before 1725).
| Building | Image | Location | Built | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Whitfield House | Guilford | 1639 | Oldest surviving stone American Colonial house in New England, museum since 1899.[1] | ||
| Buckingham House | Milford | 1640 | Core dates to 1640 modifications in 1725 and 1753. NRHP. [2] [3] | ||
| Feake-Ferris House | Greenwich | 1645 | Core dates to 1645 modifications in 1689.[4] | ||
| Thomas Lee House | East Lyme | 1660 | Began as a one-room house, museum since 1897.[5] | ||
| Deacon John Moore House | Windsor | 1664 | Crossing summer beams. Moore was also a woodworker known for using the foliated vine design, which depicts vines and blossoms carved in shallow relief with flat surfaces. NRHP.[6] | ||
| Acadian House | Guilford | 1670 | Saltbox named after the Acadians who lived there following 1755 deportation from Canada. NRHP.[7] [8] | ||
| Dr. Philip Turner House | 1670 | The house was occupied by American Revolutionary War surgeon Philip Turner. | |||
| Nehemiah Royce House | Wallingford | 1672 | Saltbox, General George Washington slept here in 1775, once a residence for Choate Rosemary Hall.[9] | ||
| Leffingwell Inn | Norwich | 1675 | Important meeting place during the American Revolutionary War. | ||
| Elisha Bushnell House | Old Saybrook | 1678 | The Colonial property includes two contributing buildings, the second being termed the "Slave House". | ||
| Joshua Hempsted House | New London | 1678 | One of the earliest documented houses in Connecticut, now a museum.[10] | ||
| Parker House | Old Saybrook | 1679 | Early gambrel roof. The house remained in the Parker family until the 1960s. NRHP | ||
| John Hollister House | Glastonbury | 1680[11] | Has hewn overhang with supporting corbels. | ||
| Thomas Wheeler House | Bridgeport | 1680[12] | Located in Black Rock, an area with deep colonial maritime history. Core may date to 1644. 22" wide summer beams. | ||
| Deacon John Graves House | Madison | 1681 | Saltbox saved from demolition and fully restored in 1983 by a private foundation, now a museum in Madison.[13] | ||
| Ephraim Hawley House | Stratford | 1683 | Core is a -story Cape Cod cottage modified into a saltbox, hand-riven oak clapboard in situ in lean-to attic. | ||
| Ward-Heitman House | West Haven | 1684 | Historic House Museum. NRHP. | ||
| John Randall House | Stonington | 1685 | Notable for its restoration in the 1930s by early preservationist Norman Isham. NRHP.[14] [15] | ||
| Samuel Harris House | Middletown | 1686[16] | May be Middletown's oldest building. NRHP. | ||
| Loomis Homestead | Windsor | 1688[17] | Part of Loomis Chaffee School, main house dates to 1688, with attached ell dating to some point between 1640 and 1688.[18] [19] [20] | ||
| Elisha Pitkin House | Guilford | 1690 | Moved from East Hartford in 1955, interior retains many original 18th-century features. NRHP.[21] | ||
| Jonathan Murray House | Madison | 1690 | Distinctive roof. NRHP.[22] | ||
| Meigs-Bishop House | Guilford | 1690 | English tea room in Madison.[23] | ||
| Putnam Cottage | Greenwich | 1690 | Also known as Knapp Tavern during the American Revolution.[24] | ||
| Bradford-Huntington House | Norwich | 1691 | Gambrel home of American Revolutionary War officer Jabez Huntington. Claimed Huntington hosted George Washington here. | ||
| John Whittlesey Jr. House | Old Saybrook | 1693 | Private residence. NRHP. | ||
| Comfort Starr House | Guilford | 1695 | Original oak clapboard in lean-to attic, residence.[25] Dendrochronology in 2014 confirmed a construction date of 1695.[26] | ||
| Avery Homestead | Ledyard | 1696 | Begun as a single-story, one-room house and later expanded to a two-story, two-room house by 1726. | ||
| General David Humphreys House | Ansonia | 1698 | Home of the first U.S. Ambassador, now a museum. Partially rebuilt in 1733. NRHP. | ||
| Hoyt-Barnum House | Stamford | 1699 | Early Cape Cod Cottage, Stamford Historical Society museum. NRHP.[27] | ||
| Stanton-Davis Homestead Museum | Stonington | 1700 | A working farm for the last 350 years. NRHP.[28] [29] | ||
| Eells-Stow House | Milford | 1700 | Served as a hospital during Revolutionary War, now a museum.[30] | ||
| Shelley House | Madison | 1700 | Dated to before 1700 by J. Frederick Kelly. Chamfered summer and girts with lambs-tongue stops[31] | ||
| Pratt House | Essex | 1701 | Ell dating to 1701, according to museum site. Main block dates to 1732. NRHP. | ||
| Howd-Linsley House | North, Branford | 1705 | Chamfered summer beams and beaded joists. NRHP | ||
| Abraham Coult House | Glastonbury | 1706 | Saved from demolition and moved in 1972. NRHP.[32] | ||
| Clark Homestead | Lebanon | 1708 | Lebanon's oldest building. NRHP.[33] | ||
| John Glover House | Newtown | 1708 | Private residence. NRHP.[34] | ||
| Pelatiah Leete House | Guilford | 1710 | Oldest surviving house belonging to Leete family. NRHP.[35] | ||
| Raymond-Bradford Homestead | Montville | 1710 | Constructed by a woman, Mercy Sands Raymond, in the colonial period. NRHP.[36] | ||
| Strong House | Coventry | 1710 | Historic house museum. NRHP.[37] | ||
| John Tyler House | Branford | 1710 | Private residence, NRHP. | ||
| Buttolph-Williams House | Wethersfield | 1711 | Connecticut Landmark museum.[38] | ||
| Solomon Goffe House | Meriden | 1711 | Historic house museum, oldest building in Meriden. NRHP.[39] | ||
| Black Horse Tavern (Old Saybrook, Connecticut) | Old Saybrook | 1712 | Private residence. NRHP. | ||
| Hyland House | Guilford | 1713 | Saltbox with framed overhang and flat plaster ceilings, now a museum.[40] Dendrochronology in 2014 confirmed a 1713 construction date.[41] | ||
| Ridgefield | 1713 | Fired upon during the Battle of Ridgefield in 1777. NRHP.[42] | |||
| Branford | 1715 | House was built in Madison and moved to Branford in 1940. NRHP. | |||
| Scotland | 1715 | Occupied by a single family for over 250 years, now owned by the local historical society. | |||
| Mystic | 1717 | House Museum with paired summer beams. Last house restored by architect J. Frederick Kelly[43] | |||
| Stanley-Whitman House | Farmington | 1720 | Saltbox with framed overhang style with carved pendants, now a museum.[44] | ||
| Glastonbury | 1720 | Home of political activists involved in causes including abolitionism and women's suffrage. NRHP.[45] | |||
| James Hazelton House | Haddam | 1720 | Late First Period house. NRHP.[46] | ||
| Samuel Huntington Birthplace | Scotland | 1723 | Saltbox home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Connecticut, now a museum.[47] | ||
| Jared Eliot House | Guilford | 1723 | A well-preserved example of period residential architecture. NRHP.[48] | ||
| Captain David Judson House | Stratford | 1723 | A fine example of early Georgian Architecture chimney and cellar date to 1638. NRHP. | ||
| Harrison House | Branford | 1724 | Saltbox with overhang serves as the Branford Historical Society museum.[49] |