Rev. John Wightman House

	Rev. John Wightman House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	1024 Mount Vernon Rd., Southington, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°35′56.8″N 72°55′31.3″W / 41.599111°N 72.925361°W
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1770
Architectural style	Colonial, New England Colonial
MPS	Colonial Houses of Southington TR
NRHP reference No.	88003111
Added to NRHP	January 19, 1989

Rev. John Wightman House is a historic American colonial house at 1024 Mount Vernon Road in Southington, Connecticut. It was built about 1770 for the town's second Baptist minister, and is a good local example of Georgian architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1]

Description and history

The Rev. John Wightman House is located in western Southington, on the west side of Mount Vernon Road north of its junction with West Center Street. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade is five bays wide, with a symmetrical arrangement of windows around a center entry. Upper floor windows are butted against the eave, with a narrow band of dentil moulding, while ground floor windows and the entrance are topped by slightly projecting and splayed lintels. The entrance flanked by narrow moulding and has a transom window with five panes in the shape of a tombstone. Above the entrance is a three-part window with narrow side windows. The interior is architecturally distinguished, and there is a later ell extending to the rear.^[2]

John Wightman was an itinerant Baptist minister who purchased this parcel of land in 1770, and is presumed to have the house built soon afterward. He became the second settled minister for a small congregation of Baptist families. He is buried in a small cemetery nearby,^[2] and was succeeded by his son Valentine, whose house stood further north on Mount Vernon Road.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Rev. John Wightman House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-12-09.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Rev. John Wightman House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-12-09.

[1]

[2]

v t e U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types
Lists by state	List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands
Lists by associated state	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau
Other areas	District of Columbia American Legation, Morocco
Related	National Historic Preservation Act Historic Preservation Fund List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places portal Category

Description and history

See also

References