Mill Community Record Norwich
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Yantic Woolen Co. Housing
- Address or Location
- 140 Yantic Road, Yantic, Norwich
- Specific Location
- In the vicinity of Yantic Road’s intersection with Sunnyside Street, including along Yantic Road, Sunnyside Street, Chapel Hill Road, Sunnyside Road West, and Sunnyside Road East.
- County
- New London
- Historic Designation
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n/a
- Associated Mill Complexes
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
At least seven, up to 19.
Dates of Construction
Mid-to-late 19th c.
Housing Types
Brief Description
Consists of a small village of single- and multi-family residences located in the vicinity of the Yantic Woolen Co. mill (#1381). The main portion of the stone mill was erected in 1865 and the village of Yantic was developed in direct response to the need for employee housing. Much of the housing stock was erected and owned by the company, this including seven extant examples of roughly 16 residences identified as the property of E.W. Williams, the mill’s owner, on an 1868 map of the village. Three of the houses formerly located north of the mill along Yantic Road have since been demolished, as have another five that were cleared for the CT Route 2/32 interchange. A neatly arranged cluster of ten vernacular duplexes and two Carpenter Gothic style single-family houses located east of the mill on Sunnyside Road East do not appear on the 1868 map, yet were also likely erected by the company during the mid-to-late 19th c.
