Mill Community Record Somers
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Somersville Historic District
- Address or Location
- Roughly, along Main, Maple and School Sts., Pinney and Shaker Rd. and Quality Ave., Town of Somers, Somers
- Specific Location
- Roughly, along Main, Maple and School Sts., Pinney and Shaker Rd. and Quality Ave., Town of Somers
- County
- Tolland
- Historic Designation
- Associated Mill Complexes
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Several dozen.
Dates of Construction
c.1850, c.1885-1934
Housing Types
n/a
Brief Description
For description see National Register application: http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/95000401.pdf.
The village known as Somersville developed around, and largely in direct association with various factories that have occupied the site of the Somersville Mill (#4000) since the mid 18th c. The earliest company-built housing was erected along School Street by the Holmes and Reynolds Co. ca. 1850, while the Somersville Mfg. Co. built dozens of single- and multi-family residences in the vicinity of the mill between ca. 1885 and 1934. The majority of these consist of two-story duplex-style houses with side-gabled roofs such as those found along Main Street, however, other examples, such as the single-family managers’ houses at 14, 17, and 18 Quality Avenue, and the four-family tenements at 54, 60, and 64 Quality Avenue, can be found scattered throughout the district.
