Talk:Jedidiah Dudley House

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Address is 71 Springbrook Road and owner since June 28, 2005 is Crossroads Communications Enterprises LLC (who operates WLIS radio station next door). --Polaron

It's fine for you to add such an assertion here. It would be more useful here if you explained how you "know" that. I can't tell the difference between your "personal knowledge" vs. information you have just looked up from a reliable source, when you make assertions like this without sharing your source. Thank you for not adding it as an unsourced assertion into the article. --Doncram (talk) 18:45, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

This is from the Clinton Town Assessor's Office maps. It's not crucially important to the article which is why I put it here. --Polaron | Talk

John Buckingham House

In previous edits in the article, there was adding & removing of mention of a John Buckingham House at Mystic Seaport (owned by the same Whittlesey family?) Here is an article about a Buckingham house there. I'm not sure if this is related to topic of Jedidiah Dudley House. --doncram 03:28, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

This NRHP document on Whittlesey House(?) makes a connection, but not family ownership:

Unlike the typology devloped by J. Frederick Kelly for the evolution of the colonial house plan, the Whittlesey house retained the older portion of the house as a distinct entity attached as an ell to the rear. In Kelly*s typology, a one-room house in floor plan is added to with a second room to create a bilaterally symmetrical house with a center chimney enclosed by the two rooms. A lean-to addition later results in the lfsaltbox"profile. Several houses in the vicinity of the Whittlesey house developed in a parallel fashion to it. The Buckingham house, now on display in Mystic Seaport, has a 17th-century ell attached to a mid-18th-rentury Georgian house. It seems likely that the Whittlesey house represents a strong local tradition or sentiment in the reuse

of older structures.

The Buckingham house was in fact moved, so I read that as saying it was in the vicinity of the Whittlesley house.

And there's Dudley - Whittlesley family connection from overlapping (duplicated?) source:

John Whittlesey, a resident of Saybrook,

and his brother-in-law William Dudley, from Guilford, were appointed to operate the ferry jointly. The point of land near which the ferry wharf was located soon became known as Ferry Point instead of Tilley’s Point. The Whittlesey and Dudley families received grants of land in the vicinity, and a small community based on the ferry operation and farming developed. In the 19th-century, the cluster of homes around the ferry became known as the Ferry District, after the title

of the local school district.

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--doncram 03:43, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

While it could go here, I added connection about this to the John Whittlesey Jr. House article instead. --doncram 04:02, 4 October 2016 (UTC)