Community Corner
Picture South Windsor - Then And Now
An old photo and brief story from South Windsor's past, and how that site appears today.
SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — It's time to return to the pages of an amazing picture book entitled Images of America: South Windsor, compiled in 2017 by Claire Lobdell for the Wood Memorial Library & Museum. The book, containing 128 pages of fascinating photos from the town's history, is available for purchase at the library's museum store here.
Page 52 features a photo taken around 1902 of a French Second Empire-style house at 793 Main Street. Built in 1873, the home currently consists of 5,038 square feet of living space. It was originally owned by tobacco farmer John Newberry King and his wife, Julia Ann Keeney King.
Here is a more contemporary look at the house, courtesy of the South Windsor assessor's office.
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