'Turnback Tuesday' features Commodore Hull House in Derby

Commodore Isaac Hull House in Derby

Turnback Tuesday looks back at the home of one of Derby’s heroes, Commodore Isaac Hull, Captain of the U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812.

Hull was born March 9, 1773 in Derby when the family lived on Commerce Street. The image of their house - a symmetrical, colonial home with an attached summer kitchen - is from the book of “Isaac Hull, His Life and Times."

It featured a center door, center chimney with equal number of windows on either side.

Sadly, the house was razed in the early 1960s, but fortunately for the Derby Public Library through a recent donation we have an original cast iron nail from the house just before it was razed.

Thank you to the Berman family for their recent donation.

Thanks goes to the Derby Public Library staff for sharing interesting local history each week.