Tariffville Historic District

Connecticut, United States

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The Tariffville Historic District is a 93-acre historic village in Simsbury, Connecticut, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Encompassing 165 contributing buildings and two contributing sites, the district preserves the character of an early nineteenth-century mill village centered on the Tariff Manufacturing Company's carpet mill along the Farmington River. The architecture spans Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles, the latter likely derived from pattern books by Andrew Jackson Downing, alongside mill worker housing that reflects the community's industrial origins. Trinity Episcopal Church, designed by the nationally prominent architect Henry C. Dudley, stands as the district's only building by a nationally known architect. The surviving streetscape, commercial blocks, religious structures, worker housing, and outbuildings collectively document the area's development from industrial mill town through the twentieth century with substantial architectural and historical integrity.