William Hitchcock House, 79 Lovely St.

William Hitchcock House c. 1891. Queen Anne Victorian style with varied designed and patterned wood shingle and clapboard siding. This mostly original large home has three full stories with lofty ceilings and an expansive veranda porch supported by pairs of classic Doric columns and heavy balustrade. The windows are also large and have newer aluminum storm windows over the inner 1 lite over 1 lite double hung windows. A triptych of original diamond pane fixed, and casement windows is featured in the upper gabled front façade surrounded by decorative half cove cut shingles.

Although born in Cornwall William Hitchcock was raised in Unionville. By the age of 15 he was working for the Union Nut Company, later Upson Nut Company, as an office boy. He eventually rose to become president of the Upson Company in 1912. The Upson Company was eventually sold to the Bourne-Fuller Company. Bourne-Fuller became part of Republic Steel in 1930. There is still an Upson Nut division of Republic Steel in Cleveland Ohio.

In 1891, Hitchcock bought one acre from Henry and Anne Cowles. In the fall of 1891, he took out two mortgages on his property “with all buildings thereon standing” dating the house to 1891.

The Upson Nut Company building continues to be used today as Upson Market Place, Mill St., Unionville.