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Samuel Wadsworth Russell House

Greek Revival houses in ConnecticutHouses completed in 1828Houses in Middletown, ConnecticutHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in ConnecticutNational Historic Landmarks in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, ConnecticutUse mdy dates from August 2023Wesleyan University
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The Samuel Russell House is a neoclassical house at 350 High Street in Middletown, Connecticut, built in 1828 to a design by architect Ithiel Town. Many architectural historians consider it to be one of the finest Greek Revival mansions in the northeastern United States. Town's client was Samuel Russell (1789-1862), the founder of Russell & Company, the largest and most important American firm to do business in the China trade in the 19th century, and whose fortunes were primarily based on smuggling illegal and addictive opium into China. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2001. It has been owned by Wesleyan University since 1937 and now houses the Department of Philosophy.

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Samuel Wadsworth Russell House
Woodman Street, Middletown

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06457 Middletown
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