The Thomas Lyman House in Durham, Connecticut

Durham, Connecticut

Durham is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. Durham is a former farming village on the Coginchaug River in central Connecticut. The population was 6,627 at the 2000 census. Every autumn, the town hosts the Durham Fair, the largest volunteer agricultural fair in New...

 was built circa 1774 by Thomas Lyman IV. It has a main block and an ell extension. Photographs show that it is a two-chimney house with a hip roof

Hip roof

A hip roof, or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope. Thus it is a house with no gables or other vertical sides to the roof. A square hip roof is shaped like a pyramid. Hip roofs on the houses could have two triangular side...

 and two front dormers. The front also shows nine 12 over 12 windows, when photographed in 1974.

Thomas Lyman is said to have been friends with Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

 and to have entertained Lafayette in this house several times.

The 1 acre (0.404686 ha) property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1975.