Frederick Colony House // c.1885

Buildings of New England

When you look up Queen Anne architecture on Google, this house in Wilton, NH should pop up! The Frederick Colony House was built around 1885 for the mill-owner who built a large cotton mill (last post) in town at the same time. Frederick Colony (1850-1925) was from a prominent textile and cotton mill-owning family based in Massachusetts and Keene, New Hampshire. Colony purchased land along the Souhegan River and built a new mill, there to make his own fortune, and that he did! The Frederick Colony House remains as one of the best-preserved homes in Wilton, and recently sold. Those interiors!

3 thoughts on “Frederick Colony House // c.1885”

  1. Natasha June 28, 2022 / 3:36 am

    I have always thought of Wilton as just an offbeat town and had no idea the number of buildings of architectural interest. Thank you for the education.

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    • Buildings of New England June 28, 2022 / 8:45 am

      Thank you! I try and stop at the off-beat or smaller towns that people know of and never really visit. There are gems in every corner of New England! Wilton Center is even cooler, stay tuned!

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