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Jonathan Warner House
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in 2016
Jonathan Warner House is located in Connecticut
Jonathan Warner House
Location in Connecticut
Jonathan Warner House is located in the United States
Jonathan Warner House
Location in the United States
Location 47 Kings Hwy., Chester, Connecticut
Area 28 acres (11 ha)
Built 1798 (1798) and 1924
Architect Warner, Jonathan
Architectural style Federal
NRHP reference No. 78002855
Added to NRHP December 19, 1978

The Jonathan Warner House, also known as Warner-Brooks House, is a historic house at 47 King's Highway in Chester, Connecticut. Built in 1798, it is a well-preserved local example of Federal period architecture, featured prominently by architectural historian J. Frederick Kelly in The Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut (1963). The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Description and history

The Jonathan Warner House is located in a rural-suburban area of eastern Chester, at the northeast corner of East King's Highway and Middlesex Turnpike (Connecticut Route 154). It is a two-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, two interior chimneys, and clapboarded exterior. The central bay of the front is framed by two-story Ionic pillars supporting a small flat projecting roof. The main entrance is flanked by pilasters supporting an entablature, and sidelight windows outside the pilasters. It has a Palladian window above the entry with pilasters separating and flanking the window sections. A 19th-century carriage barn, which was moved to the site, serves as the garage. The interior of the house has many instance of fine woodwork, including several original fireplace mantels, and the main staircase.

The house was designed by Jonathan Warner, who supervised its construction in 1798 and who copiously documented the process. Surviving documentation includes receipts for purchase of most of the materials that originally went into its construction and finishing. Warner was a wealthy farmer, who also operated the nearby Chester–Hadlyme ferry and invested in merchant shipping ventures. The house was illustrated by J. Frederick Kelly in his prominent book The Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut (1963). It is believed to resemble another mansion built earlier in New London.

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