The Shepard House

The Reverend Robins, minister of the First Church on Main Street, recorded in his diary in 1839 that Col. Samuel Tudor Wolcott was building “an elegant new house.”  One hundred thirty years later, this stately mansion can still be rightly called “elegant.”  After the death of Wolcott in 1887, the house passed to his children and for many years was occupied by the Powers family.  About 1915, a successful tobacco farmer, J.E. Shepard, bought the house and land.  During the hurricane of 1938, a fire damaged the house which resulted in extensive renovations.  Rooms have been added to the original building, both to the North and to the South.  Four generations of the Shepard family have lived in what may truly be described as “one of South Windsor’s most elegant homes.”