title:
Old Colby House (Quimby House)
subject:
Dwellings
description:
A sepia-toned photograph of the house originally built by Joseph Colby on Seaman's Road, New London. The handwritten inscription on the back of the photograph reads: "Old Colby House - Seamans Rd. Built by Joseph prob 1788 (Job Seamans moved into old Colby house (across Seamans late house) Dec. 25. Sarah [Colby] born in this house July 1790. Moved into C. [Colby] Homestead 1800. Quimbys lived here 1890-1910? Burned in 1920's - Picture given me by Annie Quimby Call of Sutton 6/51. She showed picture of Quimby family taken in front of house - Annie is baby in arms (b. 1895). Front door a double chr. [Christian] door. Side columns simulated. Described: Entry, pulpit stairway rising from right side. Room on right - kitchen fireplace with oven flush on right side, covered by paneled door. Closets with doors on either side of fireplace. Paneling above, wainscoting all around room. Simple mantel in left front room. Sliding shutters. May have been fireplaces in upper bedrooms. Doorway and stairway to attic from right chamber, back of chimney. Children played in little room in back of chimney and attic to ell in rear. This picture was probably taken about 1900." In addition, there is a typewritten note on the photograph written after 1951. It reads:"May 17, 1980, Ausbon Sargent recalls that the Quimby-Colby House on Seamans Rd. was located (driving west from Low Plain Schoolhouse) at brow of the hill, on right, between Helen Spauldings and Col. Harrisons (1980), in pine grove. The site of Agricultural Fair Grounds a bit further to the west, from stone wall boundary of Dr. Sawyer's modern home, now Woodman) continuing to the West. Bill Kidder says that in a certain light one can still see the track location. Colby Family owned all land from Ransom Sargent's stone wall boundary (now yellow house of Baines) probably to Stanley Wenmark on both sides of road, also extending toward north Pleasant St. No house from Wenmark (Mark Shepard's) to Sargent-Spiller in 1920. Probably Walter Moreland first built his home in this the vacant property. College Athletic field, called Hutchins Field in old deeds to College 19__. Barn which went with old Colby house was to the rear of the house, towards the woods, Pleasant Lake." The photograph shows the center chimney colonial with fancy front door, and nine over six windows in the upper story. There are two kinds of siding on the house, either indicating an addition or a remodeling project. The ell extends off the back of the house, and a glimpse of the barn is visible. An unidentified woman stands in front of the house, as does a single spindle chair. There are seedlings or flower pots in most of the downstairs windows, and most of the windows are open.
source:
Quimby House, Box 10, Folder 2, Colby Colgate Cleveland Photographic Materials, MS2001.086
publisher:
Colby-Sawyer College, Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives
date:
probably 1900
rights:
Requests to reproduce this item should be sent to the Cleveland Colby Colgate Archives.
format:
image/jpeg
type:
Image
identifier:
colbyColgateClevelandPhotos_quimbyHouse_ _003