Samuel Wadsworth Russell House
Middletown, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
The Samuel Russell House is a Greek Revival mansion at 350 High Street in Middletown, Connecticut, built in 1828 to a design by Ithiel Town for Samuel Russell, founder of Russell & Company, the largest American firm in the nineteenth-century China trade. Many architectural historians consider it one of the finest Greek Revival mansions in the northeastern United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2001, it has belonged to Wesleyan University since 1937 and now houses its Department of Philosophy.
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- Type
- single-family detached home
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Historic Landmark
- Place
- Middletown, United States
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