Justin Swift House
9 North Road · c. 1820
A brick Federal house with granite lintels and sills, a transomed entry, and a later Italianate porch.
Map 3 · 11 stops
North Road
A concentrated walk through eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century houses on North Road.
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Original WPI order
Stops on this tour
Col. Jedediah Elderkin House
11 North Road · c. 1705 onward
An early five-bay house expanded repeatedly over the centuries. Revolutionary-era leader Jedediah Elderkin lived here.
Col. Eliphalet Dyer House
17 North Road · c. 1730
A rare surviving gambrel house associated with Eliphalet Dyer, a major colonial and Revolutionary-era political figure.
E. C. Wyllys House
23 North Road · c. 1835
A Greek Revival house with a prominent front gable, fluted entrance pilasters, and a later north wing and porch.
Elisha White House
31 North Road · c. 1750
A gambrel-roofed, center-chimney house later enhanced with a semicircular porch and paired Doric columns.
The Harvey Store
71 North Road · c. 1930
Originally Harvey’s Grocery Store; later converted to a home while retaining the low-scale storefront-era form.
Thomas Dyer House
62 North Road · c. 1774
Built after an earlier house burned, then remodeled toward Greek Revival taste in the nineteenth century.
Syphers House
52 North Road · c. 1930
A modest one-story house known locally as the “Daffodil House” for the large spring planting behind it.
Isaac Clark House
28 North Road · c. 1780
A hipped-roof house traditionally attributed to builder Isaac Clark, with a Doric-supported side porch and rear ell.
Josephine Bingham House
22 North Road · c. 1860
An Italianate residence with bracketed window hoods, paired chimneys, and a hipped entrance porch.
C. A. Woodworth House
10 North Road · c. 1830
A Greek Revival residence that also served as the village pharmacy, with Doric porch columns and a central chimney.
Sources & further reading
Where this history comes from
Windham Preservation Inc. tour maps National Park Service — Windham Center Historic District Windham Center Historic District overview
Stop-specific descriptions are adapted from Windham Preservation Inc.’s published tour materials. Supplemental links add context where a reliable external source is available.