206 Main Street - Griswold-Mulrooney House

1870 Italianate Victorian Style

A low pitched hip roof adorns this Victorian house with large overhanging eaves supported by pairs of corbel brackets. The tall narrow 2/2 double hung windows have decorative trim surrounds and there is an ornately framed front porch and bay window.

It is believed that Edwin Griswold built this house in 1870, but quickly sold it thereafter. In 1875, Mrs. Ann Mulrooney, a widow, purchased the house. Matthew Mulrooney, her late husband, brought his family from Dublin Ireland around 1858 and lived in Holyoke, MA, Windsor and Manchester, before moving to Unionville, where he worked in a local paper mill (probably Platner & Porter). He died suddenly in 1862. His wife was left to raise four children. Two sons and a daughter worked at Platner & Porter, and one daughter was organist and choir director for St. Mary’s Church.