Mr. Frank Livingston Underwood’s home, a modern building on the 
site of Miss Pierce’s “ Academy ” 
Miss Mary Quincy Adams’ home, a faithful modern reproduction 
by Messrs. Flowells & Stokes, architects 
she captured the young stranger’s heart, for before her 
sixteenth birthday, less than a year later, James Gould and 
Sally Tracy were married. 
The Law school (which had its inception by Judge 
Tapping Reeve and was continued by Judge Gould for 
many years after his association with him) is famous as the 
first in America, and for the celebrated men who were its 
graduates. Its catalogue comprises more than a thous¬ 
and students who became statemen, governors of states, 
jurists of the highest courts, senators, representatives, 
cabinet and foreign ministers. Among them were John 
C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, Secretary of War and 
Vice-President; Levi Woodbury, of Vermont, Secretary 
of the Treasury and Navy; Aaron Burr, Vice-President; 
Samuel Church, Chief-Justice of Connecticut; and A. B. 
Longstreet, of Georgia, President of the University of 
Mississippi. 
After the death of General and Mrs. Tracy the mansion 
passed into the possession of Judge Gould, and the little 
one-story building where he conducted the Law School 
stood at that time on the grounds back of the house. The 
property remained in the Gould family until about 1870 
when it was purchased by 
the late James Mason Hop- 
pin, Professor of Art and 
Theology of Yale University, 
the distinguished author, 
and occupied by him as his 
summer residence for some 
twenty years. 
Professor Hoppin added 
an extension at the west 
end of the house, making 
a beautiful portico, 'whose 
fine commanding pillars he 
brought from the Hoppin 
homestead, in Prov¬ 
idence, Rhode Island. The 
mansion is now owned by 
Mrs. James Mason Hoppin, 
Jr., the widow of Professor 
Hoppin’s son, and a daugh¬ 
ter of the late_ Donald Mitchell (“Ike Marvel”) of New 
Haven. 
Directly opposite the Tallmadge house is the Deming 
house, built by Mr. Julius Deming in 1790, which has been 
the family home for more than a century, being now the 
residence of Mr. J. Deming Perkins, of New York, whose 
daughter is the wife of the American Minister to China, the 
Hon. William Woodville Rockhill, author, and explorer of 
Thibet. The mansion was planned by the first architect of 
the day, Sprats, whose name is familiar in American archi¬ 
tecture, and its erection was conducted under the eye of 
Mr. Deming himself. The fan-light over the front door was 
brought from England by Mr. Deming, and one singularly 
beautiful and unusual feature of the spacious grounds sur¬ 
rounding the house is that the beds of old-fashioned flowers 
in the south garden are the same perennials which have 
bloomed each year since their planting, over a hundred 
years ago. 
Julius Deming was the founder of the China Trading 
Company together with Oliver Wolcott and Benjamin 
Tallmadge, and to these three friends the commerce of this 
country owes a debt of gratitude for their enterprise and 
foresight far in advance of 
their time. Mr. Deming was 
three times a member of the 
House of Representatives, 
and refused a re-election. 
In 1888 the mansion was 
enlarged by Mr. J. Deming 
Perkins, its present owner, 
but in every way the 
scheme of architecture was 
preserved, and it now re¬ 
mains one of the most 
stately of Litchfield’s 
historic homes. 
The veneration for its tra¬ 
ditions is shown in Litch¬ 
field in the homes recently 
erected there by the de¬ 
scendants of the pioneers. 
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One of the most stately of Litchfield’s historic homes is the Deming 
mansion, built in 1790 
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