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Wallingford's Oldest Home:
A Look Inside the Nehemiah Royce House 

Nehemiah Royce, oldest surviving son of Robert and Mary Royce, erected this saltbox house in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1672.  The Royce family occupied the house for over 200 years. George Washington visited the house twice, first in 1775 while on his way to take command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and again in 1789 when he gave an address to the townspeople in front of the house near the Elm. 

Nehemiah Royce house, Wallingford CT
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Washington Elm
Miss Helen Royce and her sister, Lucy, saved the house from destruction and had it moved down the street from its original location in 1924. 
George Washington addresses townspeople under this elm.
George Washington Elm
The house was rehabilitated in the 1930s and 1940s with the help of some prominent leaders in the historic preservation movement in New England.
For a time it was a museum and then it was used as a residence by Choate Rosemary Hall,
Nehemiah Royce house Elm
The school donated the house to the Wallingford Historic Preservation Trust in 1999. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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