The North Stonington Village Historic District is a 105 acres (42.5 ha) historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 in the town of North Stonington, Connecticut

North Stonington, Connecticut

North Stonington is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 4,991 at the 2000 census. North Stonington was split off from Stonington in 1724.-Geography:...

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The district includes part of the historic village of North Stonington. It is "an irregularly shaped district centered on the confluence of Assekonk Brook and the Shunock River" which were historic sources of waterpower. The district includes 72 contributing buildings, 5 other contributing structures, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object.

It has significance as a "well-preserved example of an early 19th-century mill village once common in Southern New England."

Contributing properties having photos included in the 1981 NRHP application are:

• a stone bridge over the Shunok River (photo 1 in the NRHP application attachments)
• lower dam of the Shunok River (photo 2)
• the William Sisson House, at 69 Main Street (photo 3)
• the Luther Avery / Steven Maine House, at 1 Wyassup Road (photo 4)
• the William Avery House, at 35 Main Street (photo 5)
• the Noah Grant, Jr., House, a house with a broken pediment at 17 Main Street (photo 6)
• the Rev. Joseph Ayer House, 94 Main Street (photo 7)
• the Wheeler Store Old Town Hall (photo 8)
• the North Stonington Post Office, 60 Main Street (photo 9)
• the Holmes Block, 2 Wyassup Road (photos 10 and 11)
• the William M. Wheeler House, at 77 Main Street (photo 12)
• the Third Baptist Church, at 29 Main Street (photo 13)
• the North Stonington Congregational Church, at 79 Main Street (photo 14)
• a schoolhouse, at 9 Wyassup Road (photo 15)
• 13 Rocky Hollow Road, a Gothic- and Italianate-style house (photo 16)
• Dudley Stewart House, 32 Main Street, a house with a peak ornament
  Peak ornament
  A peak ornament is a decorative element which may be located under the peak of eaves of a gabled building.For example, peak ornaments are notable features in some of the historic houses of the Noank Historic District, in the town of Groton, Connecticut....
  
   (photo 17)
• carriage house to the Andrew Baldwin House at 63 Main Street (photo 18)
• the Park Hotel, at 6 Wyassup Road (photo 19)
• the Wheeler School and Library, with a hipped roof
  Hipped roof
  Hipped roof can refer to:*A hip roof, a type of roof where all sides are sloped*A tented roof, a conical style of roof seen in Russian architecture...
  
  , 101 Main Street (photo 20)
• the North Stonington Grange
  Grange
  -Buildings:* Grange House , Bo'ness, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906* Hamilton Grange National Memorial, a historic house in New York City...
  
  , 21 Wyassup (photo 21)
• the Town Garage and Gas Station (photo 22)
• Blacksmith Shop, at 25 Main Street (photo 23)
• remains of canal off Babcock Road, (photo 24)
• historic photo, c.1900, of saw mill (photo 25)
• machinery of lower dam, 1981 (photo 26)

The stone bridge over the Shunok River was damaged in flooding on March 29, 2010.

External links

• House, Post Office Vicinity, North Stonington, New London County, CT: three photos, at Historic American Building Survey  (apparently this is the William Sisson House)
• Main Street (House, Front entrance), North Stonington, New London County, CT: one photo, at Historic American Building Survey