A little History on the house and previous owners:

Built in 1896, the house is one of the 13 mansions built by the Cheney's over a 150 year period.
The house, known as the Horrace Bushnell Cheney Mansion was designed by (architect unknown) and built by (unknown).
Built for Horace Bushnell Cheney who was the son of Frank Woodbridge Cheney and Mary Bushnell Cheney.
Horrace was married to Mary Pierson they had three sons and two daughters.
The house is in the National Cheney Historic District and is also on the National Register of Historic Places.

The house was purchased around 1950, by the Fisher family, who had lived in the home for a short 8 years. The Fishers owned and operated local and successful dry cleaning establishments.

In February of 1958, the house was purchased by Thomas F. and Vivian Firato Ferguson. The Fergusons paid $38,000 for the home, which was a relatively high price, yet a 'good deal' for that time. They remodeled the house extensively and moved in with their three children in August of that year. The remodeling project included a new kitchen, two new bathrooms and cosmetic renovations in each room.
During the years that the Ferguson family occupied the house, it was a site of many, many elegant gala events and parties. Guests in the home included Governor Thomas Meskill, U.S. Senator Lowell Weiker, as well as the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Manchester, England.
Mr. Ferguson was the owner and publisher of the Manchester Evening Herald. He sold the business in 1972 to Hagadone Industries. They in turn sold the bussiness to Scripps League of Newspapers who closed the doors in 1990.
Mrs. Ferguson is well known in town as a former elected official, newspaper columnist and current Town Historian.
The Fergusons were privileged to have spent 51 years in the Horace Bushnell Cheney mansion.

The house was sold to a family in Dec of 2009. The fourth family to live in the house over its 114 year life. The house is currently undergoing a full restoration bringing this propery as closely as possible to an early 1900 period.