Ebenezer King built this elaborate Federal-style mansion, with two porticos in 1795.
In 1811, he sold the house to William Gay, the son of Ebenezer Gay and a prominent
lawyer and postmaster of Suffield, who ran the post office from his house. The
house came to be known as the Gay Mansion and remained the possession of
descendants of the Gay family until 1916. The house is now the official residence of
the headmaster of Suffield Academy.
This house was built in 1850-1870 by Ephraim West. The house acquired its current
appearance when decorative elements were applied that had been removed from
the First Congregational Church during renovations after the 1938 hurricane.
In 1824, this Federal style house was built for Charles Shepard. Shepard was a
lawyer who practiced in Suffield from 1820 to 1829 and in Hartford from 1830 to
He also represented Suffield in the state assembly from 1826 to 1828. The
house was later home to the Fuller family.
The origins of the West Suffield Congregational Church go back to 1743, when
Suffield‘s Second Ecclesiastical Society was formed. Its first church building was
constructed the following year, on what is now the southwestern corner of the West
Suffield Cemetery. A second meeting house was constructed at the intersection of
Mountain Road and North Grand Street in 1795, replaced by the current church,
built on the same foundation, in 1839-1840. Church parlors were added in 1897 and
an educational wing in 1958.