John Kendrick House
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John Kendrick House
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North elevation, 2009
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 Location within Connecticut
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| Location | Waterbury, CT |
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| Coordinates | 41°33′21″N 73°2′35″W / 41.55583°N 73.04306°WCoordinates: 41°33′21″N 73°2′35″W / 41.55583°N 73.04306°W |
| Built | 1866 |
| Architect | Henry Austin (possibly) |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| Part of | Downtown Waterbury Historic District |
| NRHP reference # | 82004360 |
| Added to NRHP | 1982 |
The John Kendrick House is located on West Main Street in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. It is a brick Tuscan villa house in the Italianate architectural style built in the 1860s, one of the last remaining on Waterbury Green from that period, after which many of the older houses were replaced with commercial buildings. In 1982 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places individually, after having been included as a contributing property when the Downtown Waterbury Historic District was created a few years earlier.
It was built by Green Kendrick, an early industrialist, for his son John Kendrick, a lawyer who later served as a judge and a mayor of Waterbury. Unpublished papers on file at the Yale University Library, stylistic traits and other historical evidence suggest the house was the work of Henry Austin, although there is no definite proof. In the early 20th century Green's son donated it to the local historical society. It was later used to house the Mattatuck Museum in its early years, and is still owned by the museum although not currently in use.
The Kendrick House is on a small lot on the south side of West Main opposite Waterbury Green, the small park at the center of the city. It is midway between Church and Leavenworth streets. Across the Green are the main Mattatuck Museum building and the Elton Hotel. To the south are parking lots accessible from Kendrick Street. On either side are large commercial blocks that dwarf the house. The terrain is level and the neighborhood is an extensively developed urban core.
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