Northrop Genealogy

Northrop Properties

The properties on the Pequot Avenue parcel include:

170 Pequot Avenue (currently David Parker Associates) sold October 1947 to Anna M. Wood for $7500 -- 1946 taxes were $53.26

142 Pequot Avenue sold October 1947 to Stanley and Susan Short for $5500.  It appears they were previously renting the house. The mortgage on the property was $1009.00.  Since the papers also mention a name change from Mary Keeler Northrop to Mary Billings, it may be that they sold the porperty to divide up the assets as each sibling started their own households. (The lower numbers are towards Fairfield, higher toward Southport center.)

Other homes up the hill and closer to Fairfield may also be Northrop built homes #132 seems a similar construction.

Several houses on Harbor Road by the Tide Mill were built by the Northrop Brothers.  They also built the cottages by the Town Hall in Fairfield and built or helped build the Southport Congregational Church.

This was the family home for George E. Northrop and later George I. Northrop and his family on Pequot Avenue. The house was built by George E. Northrop probably with his brother, William as "Northrop Brothers".  The vintage of the photo is not known - The property does not show any homes on the 1867 map.  It appears there is a railroad car in the background to the left.  Note that the long windows have shutters and the door on the left side of the house also shows shutters.  You can also see the bamboo shades rolled up on the porch.  I still have some wide green bamboo shutters -- probably the ones from the porch.  This leads me to believe the trim may have been green on the house. It is earlier than many of the homes built by Northrop Brothers.

This home at 170 Pequot Avenue, Southport, Connecticut is a recently restored example of the Northrop Brothers fine carpentry and building in the Southport-Greeens Farms area.

Image Courtesy of David Parker Associates