With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
535 Black Rock Turnpike, Easton
- Bradley-Hubbell homestead
- Patricia Hubbell
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Hubbell grew up in this house.
- Description of Significance/Historical Narrative
- The house was built in 1816 and occupied by members and descendants of the Bradley family for nearly a century, until 1912. Franklin Hubbard, an employee of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company which created the Aspetuck Reservoir by flooding nearby farmland, and his family moved onto the property in 1917. The Hubbells made few changes to the house, but Hubbell added a playhouse for his children and planted apple orchards. The stand where he sold his apples is now the Aspetuck Valley Apple Orchard Apple Barn. John Dimon Bradley (1819-1905), whose parents were the first occupants of the house, described life on the farm in his memoirs, "The Aspetuc Chronicles, Narratives of Former Days in Easton and Weston, Conn...." A different perspective came from Patricia Hubbell, daughter of Franklin Hubbell, who wrote about her life while she lived in the house between about 1932 and 1954 in "Personal Recollections of Life at the BradleyHubbell House."
- Date of Construction
- 1816
- Historic Designation(s)