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The Ephraim Hawley House is a Colonial American wooden post-and-beam timber-frame saltbox farm house on the ''Farm Highway'', Route 108, on the south side of ''Mischa Hill''. It is the oldest house extant in the historic area of Nichols, a village located within Trumbull, Connecticut, in the New England region of the U.S.. 〔 D. Hamilton Hurd, ''History of Fairfield County Connecticut'', J. W. Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, 1881, page 790〕 Construction of the house began between 1670 and 1690 and was expanded to its present size by three additions. 〔W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut 1935-1942 ()〕 〔Geoffrey Rossano PhD, Historic and Architectural Resource Survey of Trumbull, Connecticut, produced for the Connecticut Historical Commission, Hartford, CT, 2002〕〔Heather Jones and Bruce Harvey,PhD, S&ME, Inc., Historic and Architectural Survey of the Town of Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut, Produced for the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT, 2010〕 The house is unique, besides being one of the earliest houses in the surrounding area, it has been located in four different named townships in its history, but has never moved; Stratford (1670–1725), Unity (1725–1744), North Stratford (1744–1797) and Trumbull (1797–present). ==Research== The ''Hawley Homestead'' was dated to 1690 during the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project conducted during the Great Depression.〔 W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut 1935-1942 ()〕 Joan Oppenheim, completed a research report on the house while studying Architecture at Yale University. She concluded, after examining the structure, researching land records, probate records and the Hawley record, that the house was built between 1683 and 1690 by Farmer Ephraim Hawley who married Sarah Welles, granddaughter of Connecticut Colony Governor Thomas Welles in 1683. 〔New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, William Cutter, 1914, Vol. 1 page 275()〕〔 Lineage Book of Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (Google eBook), Robert Glenn Thurtle, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2009 ()〕 The date of construction was not only based upon architectural details of the house, but also upon comparisons with other homes of the period, facts given to her by the Curtiss family, who owned the house at the time, and information from the ''Hawley Record'' which stated that Ephraim resided in ''Trumbull''.〔The Hawley Record, Elias S. Hawley, 1890, p. 2〕〔Magna Charta, John S. Wurts, Brookfield Publishing Company, 1945, p. 1995〕 Oppenheim also stated the dating of the house compared with that of ''S.S.'' (State Survey) on file at the School of Fine Arts at Yale. The house was dated to 1671-1683 in the 2002 Historic and Architectural Resource Survey produced for the Connecticut Historical Commission by Geoffrey Rossano, PhD.〔 The 2010 Historic and Architectural Survey of the Town of Trumbull, Connecticut produced by Heather C. Jones and Bruce G. Harvey PhD for the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, dates the house to 1670-1683.〔 A piece of oak framing was carbon dated to 1710 with a standard deviation of 40 years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ephraim Hawley House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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