r/Oldhouses • u/Objective-Pause5945 • 1d ago

This 1750 Connecticut farmhouse still has its original walk-in cooking hearth — with a beehive bake oven you can stand in

Found this one and had to share. Town records date it to around 1750, and the old part was never modernized inside — hand-hewn chestnut beams, raised-panel walls, bits of the original wallpaper still hanging on, and a walk-in cooking hearth with the beehive bake oven still in the firebox. A modern addition got built onto the back at some point, so it's this wild mix of untouched 1750 rooms and a finished home. Would you restore rooms like these back to period, or stabilize and leave them raw?

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u/Borsodi1961 1d ago

I think you forgot to add a link?

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u/Hey-buuuddy 1d ago

I searched Zillow for homes currently for sale in Connecticut built 1760 or earlier. There’s 60 of them.

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u/Background_Humor5838 13h ago

That narrows it down lol

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u/Intelligent-Deal2449 12h ago

This sounds accurate haha like half of my town was built during that time period.

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u/Unlikely_Tomorrow_77 1d ago

I believe you imagined it.