Oscar Case House

236 Salmon Brook Street

This House:

In 1855 there was a dot on the town map indicating that there was a house on the lot now known as #236 but there are no records as to who owned it or built it. As for the existing house, the story goes that the kitchen and dining rooms are the oldest part of the house. Perhaps they were moved to the site. We do know that the front part of the house was built around 1875.

A Bit More:

In 1865 we also know that Calvin Dibble lived across the street and may have had some connection to the property. Dibble was a very successful merchant dealing in wool, butter and Southern produce. His company, Dibble, Worth & Co. Southern Produce was in NYC; he lived in Brooklyn and summered in Granby.

By 1880 Oscar Case is listed as the owner. He and his family lived in the house for many years. In the 1891 census Case is listed as a stone mason and farmer. As a mason, he might have taken stone from the quarry on Hungary Road. Large cut stone was often used on top of small stone for foundations.

By 1914 reports are that the Fred Devnew family were moving from Congamond to Granby, occupying the Case house, which was being repaired for them.

Other owners were Wilbur and Emma Case, Richard and Margaret Shadford and Richard and Maliss Fowler.

Even More:

Oscar Case was a deacon for 35 years at South Congregational Church. Despite his attempt to resign, because he left town twice for a year or more, the church would not accept his resignation. In the early church, the position of Deacon was very powerful partly because the affairs of the town were so closely associated with the church. Deacons were also important in the Granby Library Association and the Center School. “These men were everywhere, doing everything.”