Horace Reynolds House (1840)
In 1840, Horace Reynolds, a blacksmith, married Mary Lockwood, daughter of Horatio. In the same year, Solomon Lockwood sold Horace a three-quarter-acre parcel of land for $100. Horace sold the parcel the following year to John Waterbury and Isaac Weed of Darien for $1,200. According to the 1842 Assessment Roll, Waterbury and Weed had a house on the lot, so the house probably dates to this period.
Tradition has it that Horace joined the 1849 California Gold Rush, but he must have done so after 1850 because the 1850 Census shows Horace and his wife living in her father's home. The Horace Reynolds House is one of Hiram Halle's earliest renovation efforts.