Address: 391 East Street
Inventory Num: 156
Location: West side 0.5 Mi north of Old Andover Road
Year Built: 1740 - 1780
Builder: Unknown
Style: Georgian
Current Use: Residence
Notable Architectural Features:
- 5 bay balanced facade
- Brick center chimney
- 12/12 sash
- Steeply pitched roof
- Small cornice returns and miniature dentil running along front main cornice
- Foundation not visible from public access
- Doorway consists of a double door, 7 light transom, flush boards tapering at the top - pilastering and a dentiled entablature applied.
Importance:Originally Bliss Tavern? Orig Owner - Samuel Bliss
(WPA survey - Hebron #36)Exterior Clapboarded walls. Narrow corner boards. Moulded rakes. Box cornice.
Doorway Pilastered doorway with moulded cap with architrave above. Corner entrance on gable.
Interior Two front rooms with paneled walls. Similar to Marlborough Tavern. Kitchen - sheathed in pine all around. Ball room in second floor, whole length of south side, vaulted roof. Seats on one side, fireplace on the other. Wide spring board floor.
(WPA Architectural Survey - ca. 1935 - # 36)
Notes:"...home is a center-chimney house of large and distinguished proportions. Much history has swirled in and around this house, and many important personages were drawn here in early times. Of late, the eminent Dr. Eugene Chase, author and co-founder of the United Nations, drew noted officials and dignitaries to this home. The house has large fireplaces and boasts a spring-floor ballroom on the second floor. A dignified doorway with over-door lights and beautiful grounds, complete the setting."
(from Hebron, Ct: Hebron Historical Society booklet prepared for America's Bicentennial) 
