Wheeler Block (Colchester, Connecticut)

Wheeler Block
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	40 Norwich Avenue, Colchester, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°34′24″N 72°19′53″W / 41.57333°N 72.33139°WCoordinates: 41°34′24″N 72°19′53″W / 41.57333°N 72.33139°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1872
Architect	Williams, William A.
Architectural style	Second Empire
NRHP Reference #	93000312[1]
Added to NRHP	April 16, 1993

The Wheeler Block, also known as the Old Town Hall and the former Ransom School, is a historic civic and commercial building at 40 Norwich Avenu in Colchester, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure in the Second Empire style, with a mansard roof, bracketed cornice, and gable-roof dormers with paired round-arch windows. It was built in 1872 by Joshua Wheeler, a local merchant and Mason. The building originally housed commercial businesses in the ground floor and the local Masonic lodge above. In 1910 Wheeler's daughter gave the building to the town, which used it as a schoolhouse until 1936, and as town hall until 1991.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1993.^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut

References

1. National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "NRHP nomination for Wheeler Block" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-02-03.