Albert Hill House, 40-42 Lovely St.

Look right across the street.

Albert Hill House, c. 1850. Italianate Victorian Modified Exotic style with unique vertical wood siding and large square columns supporting a front entry gabled portico. The 6 lite double hung windows are newer replacements as well as the two front facing doors. Above the hipped roofline, there are three brick chimneys, and a brownstone foundation is visible just below the bottom trim board. Original decorative corbel brackets can be seen along the soffit eves of the bay window on the far-right side of the building.

Albert Hill purchased 13 acres from Luther Parsons in 1844 for $200. Hill partnered with Frederick W. Crum. Together they built a small manufacturing factory on the Farmington Canal to manufacture metal caskets, cemetery monuments, and other metal objects. The factory was sold to the Upson Nut Company. Albert and Angeline Hill owned the Gleason’s Tavern Stand, located at the corner of Farmington Ave. and South Main Street, from 1855 to 1891. It was then owned by the Hill’s two daughters until 1915.

Note the additional image of Gleason Tavern c1888.