The Pomfret Street Historic District is a historic district roughly along Pomfret Street, from Bradley Road to Woodstock Road in Pomfret, Connecticut, United States. The district represents the core of the village of Pomfret Center. The district "is a picturesque and unique exemplar of Connecticut's resort and country estate period. No other town in the state contains such an impressive and cohesive ensemble of stylish summer houses, the major contributors to a district that is further enhanced by the quality of its well-integrated institutional architecture and the exceptional integrity of its historic setting." The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It includes 160 contributing buildings and two other sites, over a area. The district has an irregular shape. It is about two miles long. Two private schools are in the district. The Rectory School was founded in 1920. Its main building is a former house, dating from 1792, of Col. Thomas Grosvenor, with a large addition & alterations by Thomas Skelton Harrison, designed by Guy King of Philadelphia. It includes other houses, including Brittain House c.1800, and Marion Harvey/Harrison Deal House, by Guy King of c.1900. Pomfret School was founded in 1894 on the estate of Charles Grosvenor. It now includes brick Georgian and Colonial Revival buildings built during the first decade of the 20th century, designed by New York architect Ernest Flagg, including the Romanesque 1908 Clark Chapel. Architect Howard Hoppin designed several buildings in the district, including guest houses for George Lothrop Bradley on his estate called Rathlin: Hope Cottage, Harry Cottage, Howard Cottage, Lothrop Cottage, and alterations to Stilleben and Darius Cottages. Hoppin also designed the Joseph Washington Clark house called La Plaisance in c.1888, Oberthal for Dr. Frederick Windle Chapin, a house for Joseph Clark's daughter, Mrs. Courtland Hoppin, now Robinson House, the school's admissions office. He also designed Christ Church, and its adjacent Rectory. The Ben Grosvenor Inn grounds and outbuildings are in the district, but the Inn itself was demolished in 1960. Remaining buildings include Orchard Cottage and Olive Cottage, now used as dormitories by Pomfret School. The Colman estate house dates from 1928. Notable properties in the district include:
Most Holy Trinity Church, 1887, moved to its current location at Pomfret Street and Deerefield Road in 1973
Pomfret School's Admissions Building, Mrs. Courtland Hoppin, c.1888, moved north from its original site c.1899
Pomfret School's Headmaster's House, built by Charles Grosvenor as Eastover c.1896, as an Inn
Pomfret School's Clark Chapel, Ernest Flagg 1907/8
Pomfret School's School House, Ernest Flagg 1906/7
Pomfret School's four brick dormitories, Dunworth, Pontefract, Plant & Bourne, and the campus plan, by Ernest Flagg.
Thomas Hubbard House
Grosvenor Inn Cottages, 29 and 33 Grosvenor Road
Joseph W. Clark Estate House, La Plaisance, c.1888
Coleman Estate House, 1928
Christ Church Episcopal, 1881, and Rectory, <1886.
