Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden

	Joseph Bellamy House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
Location	9 Main Street North, Bethlehem, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°38′42″N 73°12′32″W / 41.64500°N 73.20889°W
Area	104 acres (42 ha)
Built	1760
Architectural style	Colonial
Website	Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden
Part of	Bethlehem Green Historic District (ID82001001)
NRHP reference No.	82004444
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 12, 1982
Designated CP	December 16, 1982

The Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden (also known as the Joseph Bellamy House) is a historic house museum at 9 Main Street North in Bethlehem, Connecticut. It was built in 1760 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

The building was constructed as a farmhouse in about 1754 by the Rev. Joseph Bellamy, a prominent Congregationalist minister who played an influential role in the First Great Awakening.^[2] Later, Henry Ferriday bought the property; his daughter, Carolyn Woolsey Ferriday, owned it until her death in 1990. Under the terms of her will, the house and several surrounding acres were subsequently turned into a small museum by the Antiquarian and Landmarks Society, now known as Connecticut Landmarks.

The museum features American and European antiques and a formal parterre garden with a collection of roses, peonies and lilacs. A weeping willow on the property once stood at the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte. Another 81 acres of forest and fields adjacent to the museum property are maintained as Bellamy Preserve, the town of Bethlehem's "Central Park," by the Bethlehem Land Trust.

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "NRHP nomination for Joseph Bellamy House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-12-20.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Joseph Bellamy House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-12-20.

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