Southport - II

 Here are some more houses I saw on a walk around the shoreline neighborhood of Southport, part of the city of Fairfield, Connecticut.

Samuel Allen Nichols, a successful Southport merchant, had this house built in 1848.  Buildings of New England indicates that it was originally Gothis Revival in style, later modified with a Second Empire style mansard roof.  It has had other modifications over the years.

Simpler and smaller than some of the other houses in Southport's historic district, it is one of my favorites.  Buildings of New England indicates that this Second Empire house was built in 1848 for Mary Pomeroy, a wealthy widow whose late husband had been a merchant and a senator but died relatively young.

Here is one of Southport's few surviving pre-Revolutionary homes.  It was built around 1767 for William Bulkley.  In 1797 Tory loyalists in Fairfield burned to the ground the homes of colonists.  This is one of only four in Southport that survived the burning. 

Oliver Perry built this house in 1843.  Buildings of New England reports that Perry was a merchant, ship owner, banker and politician.  It is a Greek Revival structure with a pediment overhanging and supported by four Doric columns.

The Charles Gilman house was built in 1871 in the "stick style."  Gilman was a Bridgeport lawyer.  Buildings of New England notes that a later owner was also a successful lawyer.