Sterling Homestead

Stratford, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Sterling Homestead is a Federal-Georgian wood-frame house at 2225 Main Street in Stratford, Connecticut, built around 1790. The 2½-story structure, five bays wide and topped with a side-gable roof, displays refined period details including a centered front-facing cross gable ornamented with a fan louver, a Palladian window, and a formal entry framed by sidelights and pilasters supporting an entablature. Originally built for Abijah McEwen, the house gained prominence through its mid-19th-century association with John W. Sterling, a major local landowner and ship's captain involved in China trade who later constructed an elaborate nearby mansion (now the Sterling House Community Center). The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.