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Address is 71 Springbrook Road and owner since June 28, 2005 is Crossroads Communications Enterprises LLC (who operates WLIS radio station next door). --Polaron
In previous edits in the article, there was adding & removing of mention of a John Buckingham House at Mystic Seaport (owned by the same Whittlesey family?) Here is an article about a Buckingham house there. I'm not sure if this is related to topic of Jedidiah Dudley House. -- do ncr am 03:28, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
Unlike the typology devloped by J. Frederick Kelly for the evolution of the colonial house plan, the Whittlesey house retained the older portion of the house as a distinct entity attached as an ell to the rear. In Kelly*s typology, a one-room house in floor plan is added to with a second room to create a bilaterally symmetrical house with a center chimney enclosed by the two rooms. A lean-to addition later results in the lfsaltbox"profile. Several houses in the vicinity of the Whittlesey house developed in a parallel fashion to it. The Buckingham house, now on display in Mystic Seaport, has a 17th-century ell attached to a mid-18th-rentury Georgian house. It seems likely that the Whittlesey house represents a strong local tradition or sentiment in the reuse
of older structures.
John Whittlesey, a resident of Saybrook,
and his brother-in-law William Dudley, from Guilford, were appointed to operate the ferry jointly. The point of land near which the ferry wharf was located soon became known as Ferry Point instead of Tilley’s Point. The Whittlesey and Dudley families received grants of land in the vicinity, and a small community based on the ferry operation and farming developed. In the 19th-century, the cluster of homes around the ferry became known as the Ferry District, after the title
of the local school district.
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