Mill Community Record Putnam
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Cargill Falls Mill Housing
- Address or Location
- 75 Pomfret Street, Putnam
- Specific Location
- In the vicinity of Pomfret Street’s (CT Route 44) intersection with Church Street, including along Pomfret, High, and Maple Streets.
- County
- Windham
- Historic Designation
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n/a
- Associated Mill Complexes
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Seventeen.
Dates of Construction
Mid-to-late 19th c.
Housing Types
Brief Description
Consists of seventeen residential buildings situated in closely spaced rows along the north and south sides of Pomfret Street, west side of High Street, and south side of Maple Street, directly north and west of the Cargill Falls Mill (#2113). Eight of the buildings are identified as company-owned structures on an 1869 map of the area, while a ninth, the Italianate style mansion at 26 Church Street, is identified as the home of Michael Moriarty, the mill’s owner at the time. Those buildings not identified on the map are essentially identical in design to those present in 1869 (two-story wood-frame duplexes with side-gabled roofs) and were almost certainly also built by Moriarty or subsequent owners during the late 19th c.
