Address: 30 Salt Box Road
Inventory Num: 187
Location: East side 0.1 Mi south of Route 85
Year Built: 1730 - 1770
Builder: Unknown
Style: Early Georgian
Current Use: Residence
Notable Architectural Features:
- 5-bay balanced facade
- Large center brick chimney, recently rebuilt
- 1978
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- Small exposed end chimney
- Hand split clapboards on original section of house; these increase in width towards peak
- Cornice returns and dentils on the front cornice
- 6/6 sash, the four windows flanking the center door have been removed and replaced by bay windows
- Foundation not visible from public access
Importance:Remodeled about 1965. Stone chimney removed and replaced with brick at that time
(The CT society of Colonial Dames of America)Exterior The cornice is box type, with mouldings both above and below and dentils underneath. Walls are clapboarded.
Interior There is featheredge under the stairs on the porch without quarter round. The stairs are from left to right and have diagonally slanted steps and square diagonal set balusters. The upper porch is handsomely stencilled. The kitchen is long and dark, with low ceiling. The fireplace is boarded up but there are no summers. There is a good featheredge door. The southwest ceiling is eighty-three inches high and there is no paneling in that room. Raised panel door. Plain casing on fireplace. The northwest upper chamber has floor "painted in checks" squares and well stenciled walls. A chair rail all around. Diagonal braces are exposed in room at the corner posts. The ceiling is seven feet. There is no fireplace. The doors are raised, with no quarter round. The southwest upper chamber has all double beaded boards. Some quite wide wall boards were seen. No fireplace. The attic has sawn rafters
(WPA Architectural Survey - ca. 1935 - # 16)
Notes:"This fine old Saltbox house has a large center chimney, large fireplaces and front entrance hall. The grounds are set off by the placement of many herb gardens and fruit trees."
(from Hebron, Ct: Hebron Historical Society booklet prepared for America's Bicentennial) 
