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{{short description|Historic district in Connecticut, United States}}
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| location= 79--262 Calhoun St. and 11 and 12 Ives Rd., [[Washington, Connecticut]]▼
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The '''Calhoun–Ives Historic District''', or more formally the '''Calhoun Street–Ives Road Historic District''', is a locally and nationally designated rural agricultural [[historic district (United States)|historic district]] in the town of [[Washington, Connecticut]].<ref name=washingtonct>{{cite web |url=http://www.washingtonct.org/historic.html |title=Washington Historic? |access-date=2010-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725080627/http://www.washingtonct.org/historic.html |archive-date=2010-07-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is located a mile north of the village of [[Washington Depot, Connecticut]].<ref name=calives>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonct.org/caliveshdstudy.pdf|title=Calhoun Ives Street Historic District Report|author=Alison Gilchrist|date=October 1989|publisher=Washington Historic District Commission|access-date=2010-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719175244/http://www.washingtonct.org/caliveshdstudy.pdf|archive-date=2011-07-19|url-status=dead}}</ref> It runs along Calhoun Street and Ives Road. It is characterized by modestly scaled 18th and 19th century farmhouses, together with accompanying agricultural outbuildings, farm fields, and fruit orchards, set along roads lined by stone walls.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=95001344}}|title=NRHP nomination for Calhoun–Ives Historic District|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2014-12-22}}</ref> The district was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1995.<ref name="nris"/>
The '''Calhoun-Ives Historic District''', or more formally the '''Calhoun Street - Ives Road Historic District''', is a locally designated [[historic district]] in the town of [[Washington, Connecticut]].<ref name=washingtonct>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonct.org/historic.html |title=Washington Historic?}}</ref>
 
==Description and history==
It is located a mile north of the village of [[Washington Depot, Connecticut]].<ref name=calives>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonct.org/caliveshdstudy.pdf |title=Calhoun Ives Street Historic District Report|author=Alison Gilchrist|date=October, 1989|publisher=Washington Historic District Commission}}</ref>
The Calhoun-Ives area of northwestern Washington was first settled in the 1730s, when it was part of the towns of [[Woodbury, Connecticut|Woodbury]] and [[Kent, Connecticut|Kent]]. The earliest settlers, members of the Calhoun, Ives, and Averill families, purchased land from Native Americans. At first, the local farmers engaged in subsistence farming, but by the mid-19th century a trend toward market-driven dairy farming took hold, and is reflected in the changed layouts and outbuildings of the district's farm properties.<ref name=NRHP/>
 
The historic district encompasses virtually all of the properties fronting in Calhoun Street and Ives Road. Including the agricultural fields, the district is about {{convert|475|acre|ha}} in size, including a land area extending to Baldwin Hill Road in the south, Kielwasser Road in the north, and in part to Bee Brook Road in the east. The oldest house, built by James Calhoun c. 1765, is at 156 Calhoun Street. There are many examples of 19th-century barns and other farm outbuildings, and several of the house are high-quality examples of Greek Revival architecture.<ref name=NRHP/>
It is the only historic district in Connecticut that is agricultural.{{citation needed|date=September 2010}}
 
==See also==
It runs along Calhoun Street and Ives Road. It is characterized by modestly scaled 18th and 19th century farmhouses, together with accompanying agricultural outbuildings, farm fields, and fruit orchards.{{citation needed|date=September 2010}}
{{commons category|Calhoun-Ives Historic District}}
*[[Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Litchfield County, Connecticut]]▼
 
==References==
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{{National Register of Historic Places}}
 
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[[Category:Historic districts in Litchfield County, Connecticut]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Litchfield County, Connecticut]]
 
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