Comfort Starr House
The Comfort Starr House, located at 138 State St., Guilford, Connecticut, is a classic saltbox house with an added lean-to. According to a dendrochronology study, completed in 2014, the house was built in 1695.About
The house derives its name from Comfort Starr, a tailor, who bought the house from the original builder, a Guilford signer, Henry Kingsnorth, in 1694. The house is still in its primitive state. It is considered, by some, to be one of the oldest wooden timber frame houses still used as a private residence in the U.S. today.
Comfort Starr's grandfather was an English physician of the same name, who left Kent, United Kingdom on the Goodship Hercules of Sandwich boat in 1635 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Comfort Starr was a founder of Harvard College and he is buried in King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.
