Eli Phelps House

The Eli Phelps House stands in what is now a residential area of Northern Windsor, on the North Side of Marshall Phelps Road, just West of Kendrick Lane. It is a two-story masonry structure, with a flat roof that has deep eaves supported by paired Italianate brackets. The roof is topped by a square cupola, also with a deep bracketed roof, with groups of round-arch windows on each side. The North and South Sides of the building each have a projecting polygonal window bay two stories in height. Most windows are set in rectangular openings with simple trim, and have cut stone sills and lintels. A single-story porch wraps around the East and South Sides. A two-story brick ell extends to the rear of the house, joining it to a brick carriage house.^[2]

The house was built about 1860 by Eli Phelps, a tobacco farmer. The size and scale of the house demonstrate the prosperity of Windsor's farmers in the mid-19th century. Of the town's surviving Italianate houses, this one is the largest and most elaborately styled.^[2]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor, Connecticut