Avery Homestead

Avery Homestead
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	20 Avery Hill Rd, Ledyard, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°27′07″N 72°02′49″W / 41.45194°N 72.04694°W / 41.45194; -72.04694
Area	22 acres (8.9 ha)
Built	Circa 1696
Architectural style	Colonial
NRHP reference No.	92001614[1]
Added to NRHP	December 14, 1992

The Avery Homestead is a two-story Colonial-style home in Ledyard, Connecticut that was built circa 1696. Evidence suggests that the house may have begun as a single-story, one-room house and later expanded to a two-story, two-room house by 1726. The house underwent major additions and renovations by Theophilus Avery and later his grandson, Theophilus Avery. In the mid-1950s, Amos Avery began a decade-long restoration effort to return the house to its 18th-century appearance. The Avery Homestead is historically significant as a well-preserved example of an 18th-century farmhouse with fine craftsmanship. The home is also historically important because more than twelve generations of the Avery family have resided there over the course of three centuries. The Avery Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.