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Now & Then

New Canaan Now & Then: Second Congregational House

By New Canaan Museum & Historical Society | April 28, 2022

The first owner of the land on which 7 St. John Place would later be built was Dr. Samuel Benedict St. John. His great-grandfather was Brigadier-General Joseph Pearse Palmer, who was a participant in the Boston Tea Party and fought in the Revolutionary War.   

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