"Mad for Mid-Century Modern" is a project consisting of an exhibition, lectures, walking tours, and an online exhibit. It is in conjunction with the Norwich Historic Preservation District's nomination of [...]

Keith Warner subdivided his property and commissioned Charles Foster McKirahan to design 5 houses. The houses were two-story frame houses (24' x 42') with car ports. They all originally had [...]

Keith and Edna Warner were collectors of American abstract art.  In 1951, Keith and Edna Warner of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, wishing to settle in a New England college town, bought [...]

Paul Sample was an American regionalist and painted in a realistic style. Born in 1898, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1921 with a degree in Architecture. In 1938 he [...]

Architect: E.H. & M.K. Hunter Builder: Trumbull-Nelson Company Located just down the street from the Wentworth Eldredge House. This house has similar design features including a separate kitchen and servant [...]

Architect: Watershed Studio Architecture Contractor: O’Hara & Gercke, Inc. Contemporary Norwich architects have built upon early modernist concepts that emphasized siting, light, openness, and material. Today, new building materials and [...]

A New National Register District The Norwich Historic Preservation Commission has nominated the 15 homes in the Hopson Road neighborhood as a National Historic District. It is described as “one [...]

The McGean House, 1962 The Brown House, 1974 Architects: W. Brooke Fleck and Edward C. Lewis Builder: Trumbull-Nelson Company The Brown house, 1974; Fleck and Lewis, Architects [...]

Dr. George Lord, Professor of  Surgery, and Paul Sample, Dartmouth Artist-in-Residence, moved to Norwich in the 1940s, each buying large parcels on Hopson Road carved out of the farm on [...]

Architect: Allan J. Gelbin Builder: Bill and George Porter Edward and Grace Seaton were living in Brussels and planning to retire to Norwich when they met Gelbin in 1974. Describing [...]