Group 1
The Martin Kellogg House
ca 1762
Kellogg St.
New Fairfield (now Brookfield), Fairfield, CT
Revised
This is the house that I remember as
my grandparents', whom we visited on major holidays, and where I spent several
weeks each summer in my youth.
-RAD
June 2000
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[Brookfield 1962]
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200th anniversary
The date of the house could not be verified earlier than 1762 due to destruction
of older records
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Original iron knocker
The front door has its original hardware, including a lock with a massive
key. This entrance was rarely used during the Martini ownership.
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Montage I
Annotated montage from the Bertolami application, showing an old aerial
view and map
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Montage II
From the Bertolami application.
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The schoolhouse (lower left) was moved to its present location by my Grandfather
and converted into a cabin with a small addition. The original slates are
still mounted to the walls.
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The text states that my grandmother, Edna (Starr) Martini was a Mayflower
descendant, but I have been unable to verify that.
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The Lundquist house, mentioned below, would be down the street, view obstructed
by the automobile.
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Group 2
The Kelloggs of New Fairfield
(now Brookfield), CT
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Barzillai Bulkeley Kellogg family - 1867
Front Row (L-R): Emaline [unm.], Barzillai, Elizabeth Kellogg
[unm.],
Emaline Kellogg, née Johnson, Sarah Emily [unm.]
Back Row: Angeline [m. Benjamin Griffin], William [m.
Sophia Emily Beers], Florence [m. Charles Hawes], Charles D.
H. Kellogg [m. Annie Terrill]
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Montage III
Clockwise from top:
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1907 view of Martin Kellogg house, with Seelye Barnum Kellogg barely visible
behind fence
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5th generation Kellogg siblings Franklin Seelye Kellogg, Charles Abraham
Kellogg, Phebe Jane (__) Kellogg
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Seelye Barnum Kellogg
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Hanford Martin Kellogg house (ca 1790)
The people are the Hatch family, who purchased the property from
Barzillai's daughter.
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Hanford Martin Kellogg house (upper right).
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Barzillai Bulkeley Kellogg house
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Preface to "Kelloggs in the Old & New World"
by Timothy Hopkins, San Francisco, January, 1903. Mentions the recent finding
of the will of [obliterated] Kellogg of Braintree, which was important
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Newspaper article
Brookfield Journal, Brookfield, CT, 1950, by Frances Lundquist.
I remember Ms Lundquist, who lived in a dilapidated house (the "Mrs. E Stevens
house"?) down the street from Grandfather Martini's house (the Martin Kellogg
house). It is believed that Jean Webster wrote her novel, Daddy Long-Legs
while boarding there and at the Martin Kellogg house.
After she (Lundquist) died, the
property, with frontage on Candlewood lake,
was bought by a wealthy woman from New York who was prevented
from demolishing the house and rebuilding by zoning restrictions on
new construction lot size. Since there were no such restrictions on remodeling,
at a cost surely in the hundreds of thousands (a small fortune in the 1960s!),
she remodeled that
old house right out of existence – piece by piece.
RAD
Thanks, Jeanette, for finding the second part of the clipping! -R.
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4 Classical Architectural Houses
built by one family located in
Brookfield
(by Peter Bertolami)
Undated report from the Brookfield Historic District Commission.
The Wood Creek schoolhouse pictured (p.1) was attended by my mother,
Harriet Elizabeth Stansfield. It was eventually purchased by my (step)
grandfather Martini, moved to its present location and converted to a small
cottage when the lowlands were flooded in 1927 by the making of Lake Candlewood.
With a lake frontage, it was rented out to a succession of summer residents
over the years. It was left to my grandmother from Grandfather's estate,
along with 1/3 interest in the Martin Kellogg house.
RAD
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