Picture Ellington - Then And Now

ELLINGTON, CT — Today's look at Ellington history, highlighting businesses from the town's past and what those locations look like today, brings us back to a fascinating picture book entitled Images of America: Ellington. The book, compiled by Lynn Kloter Fahy for the Ellington Historical Society, was first published in 2005, and contains 128 pages of amazing photos and stories of the small town formerly known as "the Great Marsh."

We look back about 110 years, to a circa 1910 photo of children in front of the John Robinson house at 107 Maple Street. The house was constructed in 1890, according to the book, or 1900, according to Ellington property records. Robinson ran a blacksmith shop in the rear of the house.

The look of the 2,497-square-foot building, which is now a private residence, changed drastically over the years, as evidenced by the photo below from 2019, courtesy of Google Maps.

Do you have a photo of an old Ellington business which no longer exists, to which you own the copyright and which we could feature in this column? Email tim.jensen@patch.com.

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