Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House
Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House is a building in Newtown, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 2007.
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Last checked October 31, 2026 - Location
- Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut
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History
It is a Georgian style house built in c.1780 that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The house is a large, rural Georgian style farmhouse built for a prosperous farmer named Thomas Sanford (1732-1814), one of the first settlers in the Newtown area. The family farm was sold in 1824 to Hezekiah Curtis (1796-1866).
The house was purchased in 1931 by Althea Thurber, the first wife of author and humorist James Thurber (1894–1961), and it was used as a weekend or holiday home. It was ostensibly a place where Althea could have dogs, and the family dogs inspired and appeared in Thurber's humorous sketches in The New Yorker magazine. Thurber’s only daughter was born while he lived in this home, and he wrote much of his most famous work My Life and Hard Times while here. Sections of wall were covered with his sketches and are now housed in the Thurber House at Ohio State University.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The official nomination form is linked under Sources.
Other listings in Newtown
- New York Belting and Packing Co. District · listed 1982
- Newtown Borough Historic District District · listed 1996
- Nichols Satinet Mill Site Site · listed 1996
- Baldwin, Caleb, Tavern Building · listed 2002
- Camps Nos. 10 and 41 of Rochambeau's Army Site · listed 2002
- Fairfield Hills Campus Historic District District · listed 2024
- Glover House Building · listed 1982
- Glover, John, House Building · listed 2001
- Hattertown Historic District District · listed 1996
- Lattin, Nathan B., Farm Building · listed 1990
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Reservoir Road District · listed 2003
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