The original Thomas Morris House was bult around 1680, off what is now Lighthouse Road in the Morris Cove section of New Haven. It is a rare example of a sone ender house in Connecticut. The ell was added around 1767. On July 5,1779, during the Revolutionary War, the British raided New Haven and burned the house. The surviving stone and timbers were used by Capt. Amos Morris to rebuild the home the following year. IN 1915, William Pardee bought and restored the house,bequeathingit to the New Haven Colony Historical Society in 1918. William Hosley describes it as “the most historic property of the Colonial era in New Haven.”

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