Newington

The Enoch Kelsey House is a historic home in Newington, Connecticut. The house was built by Enoch Kelsey and his son, David Kelsey. Enoch was a... farmer and tinsmith. Enoch was born August 12, 1717 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married Mary Bidwell, and together they had twelve children. David was his second, born in 1760. Originally, the house was located on the western end of Kelsey Street, across from Christian Lane. Enoch's grandfather, John Kelsey, was a weaver. The home features rare, freehand painted wall decorations, basement to attic paneling, a beehive oven and fireplaces. In 1979 the house was scheduled for demolition, and the Newington Historical Society gained permission to first go inside and inspect some of the artwork that was rumored to be inside. When the volunteers entered the house and found the artwork, they began fundraising in order to perform the renovations needed to make the building into a museum. The house was moved to its current location at the intersection of Main Street and Copper Beech Road. Its address is 1702 Main Street in Newington. It is now a historic house museum run by the Newington Historical Society.
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Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south . Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state. Its capital city is Hartford. Much of southern and western Connecticut is part of the New York metropolitan area; three of... Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area. Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, which is also located within the Tri-State area. Connecticut is the 3rd least extensive, the 29th most populous, and 4th most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.
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