George E. Taft House, 170 Lovely St.

George E. Taft House, c. 1890. Vernacular Folk Victorian style with a steep cross-section gable roof, decorative bargeboard facia and corbel brackets. The house has newer aluminum siding, storm windows, and an additional second floor porch entrance on the right side, which may accommodate a multi-unit dwelling.

George Taft purchased one parcel of land from the 17 acres that Edmund and Sherman Stanford purchased from George Payne. The house was built by Sanford and Hawley in 1885. It is similar to 71 Lovely St and other S & H homes built on Cottage St. Taft a lawyer was active in Unionville helping to keep Unionville a part of Farmington in 1905.