Editing 33 Mansfield Terrace

[[Category: Places we lived]]

According to [[Grandma Jean memoirs]], [[Ernest Alexander Inglis]] and [[Agnes Inglis]] were living at 37 Home Ave., Middletown, CT, until Agnes was pregnant with Dorothy and Sandy. To accommodate their growing family, they had a new house built at 33 Mansfield Terrace, Middletown. They moved in 1927 with all five children, including Tom, Marion, and Jean.

Ernest and Agnes continued to live there until infirmities made it inadvisable for them to live alone, around 1968. After World War II, their grown children and their grandchildren were wont to visit there on certain occasions.

To my recollection, the house had a basement, two main floors, and an attic. On the first floor to the left of the entrance was a living room with a window seat facing the street, and at the back end, down one step was a sun room, possibly a later addition. More central, the entrance was through a vestibule to a large hall from which a staircase ascended from left to right. To the left of the stairs one walked into the dining room. Under the carpet in the middle of the dining table was a foot-operated button that was used to summon the help. To the right of the vestibule there was a bathroom and finally Ernest's office, which contained many shelves of law books. At the rear right was the kitchen.

On the second floor there were bedrooms, bathrooms, and a sewing room that could be a bedroom when there were many guests. Another flight of stairs led to the attic which was mostly storage but also contained a maid's quarters.