separate the great hall into several rooms. The final cost of Kelly's restoration was $26,000, financed by the Federal government and individual patrons of the Colonial Dames of America, and it was completed on October 20, 1937. Museum The Henry Whitfield House was formally opened as a museum in 1899, after the first official remodeling was completed, making it Connecticut's first state museum. The museum is operated by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development. The creation of the museum reflected a trend toward nativism amongst old American families during the immigration influx in the early twentieth century. Though some of the artifacts in the museum were found in the cellar, many are not original to the house and were gathered from other historic sites of the same time period in order to show visitors what life was like for the early colonists of America. The renovation by J. Frederick Kelly had also restored the house near to the condition it was believed by him to be in when it was first built. On site, visitors are allowed to explore the house through either historian-guided or self-guided tours, as well as through interactive tours online at the museum's webpage. The museum gained national recognition when it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997. See also Oldest buildings in America List of the oldest buildings in Connecticut List of sites administered by the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut References [12] Steiner, Bernard Christian. A History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck and of the Original Town of Guilford, Connecticut. Baltimore, The Friedenwald Company, 1897. [13] Threfall, John Brooks. The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and his wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut. Self-Published, 1989. accessed 2/13/2021, https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/484998?availability=Family%20History%20Library. [14] Lavin, Lucianne. Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples: What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures. United States, Yale University Press, 2013. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Connecticut_s_Indigenous_Peoples/T-7eCKy83cEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=menunkatuck . [15] Palmer, William G. “Invitation to a Beheading: Factions in Parliament, the Scots, and the Execution of Archbishop William Laud in 1645.” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Vol. 52, No. 1, March, 1983, pp. 17–27, Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42973928. [16] Sletcher, Michael. New Haven: From Puritanism to the Age of Terrorism. Charleston, Arcadia