Springfield, Somerset Island
| Springfield | |
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Somerset Village | |
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| Location: | 32°18’4"N, 64°52’12"W |
| Address: | 29 Somerset Road |
| Built 1740s | |
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Springfield is a grand, early Georgian house in Somerset Village on Somerset Island in Bermuda, in Sandys Parish. The house and its estate are in the care of the Bermuda National Trust.
The Springfield estate remained the property of the Hinson families until it was purchased by the Historical Monuments Trust in 1966.
The founder of the estate, Edward Hinson, was on the property by 1662. Before today's house was built, there was a substantial two-storey post-and-plaster house with a thatched roof on the site. Edward Hinson left the property to his daughter Mary and it was she and husband Ephraim Gilbert who during the 1740s built the main part of today’s structure. The house was subsequently enlarged during the late 1700s, with the addition of the courtyard, slave house, a kitchen and the unusual smooth-roofed buttery, as well as additional rooms to the house.
Outside links
- Protected Buildings: Bermuda National Trust