As a guest, you will be greeted by a costumed docent and given a tour of what was considered a mansion in its day. The house originally owned by John Welles, a Glastonbury shipyard owner, features the largest known period kitchen fire place in Connecticut, gorgeous unique antiques including one of two High Back Queen Anne Corner Chairs known to exist, a loom, weaving and spinning equipment.
You will walk through the kitchen garden on your way to tour the backyard property which includes four barns and sheds, a privy, a smokehouse, and historic grape vines and maple trees. The recently relocated, rebuilt and restored “Oak Street” c. 1800 tobacco shed will be the future home of the histiorical society's Tobacco Shed- Education Center-Museum.  Inside the white and red barns from c. 1800’s and the 200 year old English style bank barn, you will  find an  array  or  treasures  and  tools including  several horse  drawn buggy’s and wagons, including an R.F.D. postal wagon that was used in South Glastonbury, a Buckingham Cemetery hearse, a meat wagon, and sleigh.  The Welles-Shipman-Ward house awaits your arrival. 

Tour time: 1.5 hour