Mill Community Record Thomaston
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- American Knife Co. Housing
- Address or Location
- 168 Reynolds Bridge Road, Thomaston
- Specific Location
- In the vicinity of Reynolds Bridge Road’s intersection with Maple Avenue, including along Reynolds Bridge Road between Main Street and the CT Route 8 underpass, and along Maple Avenue.
- County
- Litchfield
- Historic Designation
- n/a
- Associated Mill Complexes
- n/a
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Roughly 20.
Dates of Construction
Mid 19th c.
Housing Types
Brief Description
Consists of four small clusters of one-and-a-half- or two-story single-family wood-frame vernacular residences identified as the property of the American Knife Co. on an 1874 map of the area. These consist of a row of five houses on the north side of Reynolds Bridge Road roughly 775’ west of Route 8, a row of four houses on the south side of Reynolds Bridge Road roughly 225’ west of the aforementioned buildings, a row of five houses on the southwest side of Reynolds Bridge Road another 225’ to the northwest, one house on each side of Reynolds Bridge Road just south of its intersection with Maple Avenue, and a row of four houses on the north side of Maple Avenue just west of Reynolds Bridge Road.
