H. Perry House

45 Westway Road

Next to the Sherwood house, at 45 Westway Road, is a veritable temple to commerce, the home built by Captain Henry Perry in the Greek Revival-style in 1832.  Perry, who must have been a fashionable young man, was one of the first to build in the new Grecian-style in Southport.   With its tall slender columns topped by Ionic capitals, its fan shaped window graced with an American eagle in the gable, its leaded glass side lights and transom setting off the doorway, this was a house built to impress the neighbors.  A nearly identical twin to this house, built for Perry’s brother, still stands next door to the Pequot Library.