Picture East Windsor - Then And Now

EAST WINDSOR, CT — Today's edition of this periodic informal history series, highlighting businesses from East Windsor's past and what those locations look like today, brings us back to a great picture book called Images of America: East Windsor. Released in 2017, the book was compiled by Ceil Donahue and Jessica Bottomley for the East Windsor Historical Society.

On page 42, we find the Scantic Academy, constructed in 1817 as an institute for higher learning, offering higher English and classical studies, for the Ecclesiastical Society. After being taken out of service as a school, the building served numerous functions, including an exhibition hall and a grange.

In 1946, the building was sold to L. Ellsworth Stoughton, who converted it into a pair of apartments for teachers. He founded the East Windsor Historical Society in 1965 and converted the second floor into a museum. He passed away in 1991, leaving the building and the land it sits on to the historical society as its home.

Here is a contemporary photo of the site, taken by yours truly.

Do you have a photo of an old East Windsor 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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