Nathaniel Coleman House
Located at 320 High Street, this house was constructed in 1720 by
Richard Smith, Jr. In 1793, it was sold
to Nathaniel Coleman, a Quaker
silversmith who had come to Burlington six years earlier. Coleman
occupied the house with his wife Elizabeth and his brother Samuel,
also a silversmith, until his death in 1842.
Working in a second-floor workshop at the rear of the house, both
brothers were highly productive - Nathaniel worked as a silversmith for
more than forty years - and their works are now in many private and
museum collections.
Nathaniel and Elizabeth Coleman were among the original members of
The Friendly Institution, a secretive
local charity which was organized in this house on Christmas Eve,
1796. The first floor of the house is now occupied, fittingly, by
a jeweler's shop.
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