All photos provided by Lynette Roy
Built on South Main Street for Henry Phelps Kent, a tobacco merchant, in 1872. It was designed in the Second Empire style by local architect John Mead. Later, for almost sixty years, it was the home of Samuel Reid Spencer, the prominent merchant and philanthropist who had bought and restored the King House Museum next door.
The house on High Street near the Green is an example of an eighteenth-century Cape Cod with very modern and large dormer windows. Known as the James Hall House, it was built in 1786.
The house on Halladay Ave was built in 1824 by George Fuller. It remained in the Fuller family until the Town of Suffield bought the property in 1887 to serve as a town farm. The house became the town’s “poorhouse” or “alms house”. The house was sold back to private ownership at auction in 1952
On North Street is a house built around 1723 by Lt. William King on a lot given to him by his father, James King. The lot was called King’s Great Field and the house is known as King’s Field House. William King (1695-1774) was a wealthy landowner, weaver and militia officer. He moved an earlier house to the property to form the rear of his new residence. The property was inherited by his son, William King, and then by his grandson, Seth King. The house was restored in the 1930s by Delphina Hammer Clark, author of Pictures of Suffield Houses (1940) and Notebooks on Houses in Suffield (1960).