Hempsted Houses

Two of the oldest surviving structures in Connecticut — the Joshua Hempsted House (1678) and the Nathaniel Hempsted House (1759). Both predate the Revolution and survived the 1781 burning. Joshua Hempsted's diary, kept from 1711 to 1758, is one of the most valuable records of colonial New England life. The houses communicate the scale and domestic character of New London before Arnold's raid reduced much of the town to ash.