Federal style houses are among my favorite styles! From the classical design details to the symmetrical facades, there are so many great examples of Federal style houses in New England. This house in Southbury, Connecticut dates to 1818 and was built by John Moseley (1775-1876), who lived to be 100 years old, and married twice, outliving both of his wives. According to a family history, Moseley personally went to Maine to pick out the wood used to build his house as there were no large trees left in the area when house construction began in 1818. In the early 1900s, the house was updated with a rear addition, built from a structure moved from across the street and attached to Oldfield, and with the addition of the large Colonial Revival style portico at the front entry. The house has been a bed & breakfast since the 1990s, originally called Cornucopia at Oldfield, it is now known as the Evergreen Inn.
Buildings of New England 
It’s interesting that Southbury area was deforested by 1818. In my part of Ct — north of Southbury — trees were cut to feed the iron making industry in the Northwest corner; photographs from as far back as the 1880s show treeless hills & wide open vistas.
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It is pretty amazing to think that many towns were already deforested and old growth lumber was largely reserved to NH and Maine by this period.
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