Colton, Justin House

A contributing property in the Longmeadow Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Centered on a long, narrow village green typical of Connecticut River Valley towns, this district forms the historic core of Longmeadow, a community reclaimed from sandy lowland beginning in 1703 after flooding drove settlers up from the river meadows. The green, cleared of its cottage industries and returned to open turf in an early landscape restoration around 1898, is ringed by a concentration of buildings spanning the early 18th through the 20th centuries, including colonial and Georgian houses, Federal and Italianate dwellings, a church, town hall, library, and community house. As an affluent residential suburb of Springfield, the town preserved much of its early architecture. Significance areas include architecture, community planning, commerce, education, settlement, and military and industrial history.

Colton, Justin House is a landmark in Longmeadow, Hampden County. It is one of 3,654 landmarks documented in Hampden County, among 3,815 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 42.0493, -72.5821 near Longmeadow. The nearest cataloged historic site is Colton, Capt. Simon and Maj. Luther House (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Center Elementary School, Longmeadow First Church of Christ Parsonage, Old, and War Memorial Boulder and Wall.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.