Hamblet-Putnam-Frye House

Wilton, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Hamblet-Putnam-Frye House is a two-story wood-frame Georgian residence built around the 1760s in Wilton, New Hampshire, and substantially altered in the late nineteenth century. Originally constructed by Hezekiah Hamblet, it was acquired in 1808 by Eliphalet Putnam, who operated the adjacent Frye's Measure Mill and millworks on the property. The 6.8-acre site preserves remnants of its industrial past, including early nineteenth-century mill foundations, canal, and sluice gate—later modified in the early twentieth century to create a swimming area. The property also encompasses a c. 1840 barn, c. 1900 carriage house converted to garage, and icehouse. The house eventually became a summer residence for Edmund and Alice Frye, who reunited the divided parcels and continued mill operations. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, the property exemplifies the adaptive reuse of early farmsteads and industrial sites for recreational purposes.