George Lathrop House
30 Plains Road · pre-1850
A five-bay house with a large central chimney, Italianate porch, and a two-story barn behind it.
Map 4 · 16 stops
Plains & Scotland Roads
A longer route of houses, churches, commercial buildings, barns, and early industrial history.
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Original WPI order
Stops on this tour
Bingham-Lathrop House
26 Plains Road · c. 1732
Once St. Paul’s rectory, this gambrel-roofed house retains early window patterns and a single brick chimney.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
27 Plains Road · c. 1833
A native-stone church blending Greek and Gothic Revival ideas; its nineteenth-century spire was eventually removed after storm damage.
Avery House
21 Plains Road · pre-1850; remodeled c. 1850
A large Italianate with bracketed eaves, major barn complex, and an air-raid shelter beneath a grassy mound.
W. Johnson House
11 Plains Road · c. 1850
A wood-frame house remodeled into a lower, more decorative form with carved brackets and a long south wing.
Windham Post Office
6 Scotland Road · c. 1875
A former general store later remodeled as the post office; postal service had previously operated inside the store.
Zephaniah Swift House
10 Scotland Road · c. 1720
Built in stages from an earlier compact core into a larger saltbox-like form; associated with jurist and politician Zephaniah Swift.
R. Rood House
24 Scotland Road · c. 1886
An Italianate house whose large barn supported George T. Rood’s horse and cattle business in the late nineteenth century.
Alfred Avery House
26 Scotland Road · c. 1840
A Greek Revival house later altered with a prominent two-story bay addition and mixed clapboard and vertical siding.
The Tannery
42 Scotland Road · 1700s
An early brick Cape associated with tanning, later joined to a gambrel wing and twentieth-century additions.
49 Scotland Road
49 Scotland Road · c. 1830
A Greek Revival house built around an earlier one-room brick schoolhouse, with later wings added over time.
Page House
50 Scotland Road · c. 1880
A Victorian house with multiple wings, a front dormer, and a nineteenth-century barn directly behind it.
Dr. E. Huntington House
55 Scotland Road · c. 1855
A four-bay Italianate with paired doors, a fanlight, and abundant ornamental trim.
G. W. Abbe House
60 Scotland Road · c. 1780
A five-bay house with twin chimneys, a classical porch, and a glassed-in west porch accessible from the second floor roofline.
J. Bliven House
64 Scotland Road · c. 1750
An eighteenth-century frame house enlarged by adding a second story; a barn stands behind it toward Ballamahack Road.
Orchard House
67 Scotland Road · c. 1890
A Victorian house built by Fred Gee, whose farm was known for its apple orchard; later farm buildings remain behind the house.
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 History of Windham Centre (1889)
Stop-specific descriptions are adapted from Windham Preservation Inc.’s published tour materials. Supplemental links add context where a reliable external source is available.