David Lyman II House
The David Lyman II House, also known as the Lyman Homestead, is a historic house at 5 Lyman Road in Middlefield, Connecticut. Built around 1860, it is among the best Gothic Revival structures in the greater Middletown area. The house is built in part on the foundation of a 1785 house that originally stood on the site. The property containing the house and its outbuildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Description and history The David Lyman II House stands in a rural setting of Middlefield, on the west side of Lyman Road just south of its junction with Connecticut Route 147. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The roof is crowned by a square cupola with paired round-arch windows on each side, and a flared pyramidal roof. A gabled wall dormer rises in front of the cupola, adorned with vergeboard and crowned by a finial. The main facade is five bays wide, with a single-story porch extending across the front. The porch is supported by chamfered post with sawn brackets. Italianate brackets also adorn all of the roof eaves. The Lyman family owned land in this area