Cyrus Mann House # 167 Route 216, Wall Street

Now

After the Hurricane of 1938

Courtesy of Our Town’s Heritage 1708-1958 by John Sibun1975

Cyrus Mann was a Hebron merchant and judge in the early 1800’s. Originally the Mann family owned the house Cesar Peters bought in 1806 just south of this house. In 1783, the Manns built this large stylish house. In later life, Andrew Mann proudly pointed to every tree stump on the property where trees were felled to make the frame. He was quick to point out that his brother who built a house to the north of his used lumber shipped down from Vermont and New Hampshire. That house didn’t last very long and was later converted into a barn. This house remained in the Mann family until the 1880’s. After that it was owned by a series of immigrant families. In 1938, Connecticut was hit by a major hurricane which did a great deal of damage in Hebron. During that storm the north wall of the Mann house was ripped off creating a life-size doll house. The house was repaired and survives to today.

Think About it

If you were to build a house today in Hebron, where would the building materials originate?

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