[1] The district runs along both sides of Main Street from the Scantic River south to the Edwards Cemetery.

The district encompasses a neighborhood of well-preserved largely folk vernacular buildings erected between about 1700 and 1860.

Several houses were built in the high Federal style, typically for merchants who were dealing in the area's agricultural products.

A number of locally well-known builders constructed houses in the village, and there are several fine instances of the elaborate carved doorway surrounds for which the Connecticut River valley is well known.

Probably the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the district is the 1835 high-style home of Bennett Tyler, the first president of the Theological Institute.