Bill, Gurdon, Store

History

The Gurdon Bill Store is located in Ledyard, Connecticut. Gurdon Bill and his partner Philip Gray purchased the land for the store in 1818; Gray sold his interest to Bill for $500 in 1819. Bill operated the store until his death in 1856 and the store is believed to have made its final transaction in 1868. It has not been used since it was sold to the Congregational Society in 1875, retaining its historical integrity. The store is an 18-by-30-foot (5.5 by 9.1 m) by 1+1⁄2-story gable-roofed clapboarded structure built upon fieldstone and stone blocks. It has some unusual architecture in the form of a pent-roof and three-part window shutters. Bruce Clouette, a consultant who prepared the Store's registration to the National Register for Historic Places on behalf of the Connecticut Historical Commission, describes the store as "the best preserved early 19th-century store known in Connecticut." The Gurdon Bill Store was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 12, 1982.

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