Phelps-Hatheway House
Connecticut Landmarks property on Main Street, open seasonally.
Suffield · Hartford County · Connecticut
Farm country with a Main Street worth the drive.
Forty-two square miles of preserved farmland, tobacco sheds and a National-Register Main Street, fifteen minutes from Bradley International Airport and a world away from hurry.
Why Suffield
What living here actually feels like.
Suffield is why West Suffield exists: the parent town, settled in 1670, still shaped by its river-bottom soil. Its center holds a National Register historic district around the Phelps-Hatheway House; its outskirts hold working dairy, berry and flower farms, many protected under the state farmland program so they stay farms.
Suffield Academy gives the town a prep-school pulse, Kent Memorial Library gives it a living room, and the Suffield Land Conservancy keeps trails open through it all. The town publishes its own farm directory and runs the farmers market from the planning office — local government that treats agriculture as infrastructure.
- National Register Historic District on Main Street
- Phelps-Hatheway House & Gardens (c. 1761)
- Working farms under state farmland preservation
- Suffield Farmers Market, run by the town itself
Getting there
Ask Sallie about Suffield
Bradley International — about 15 min
Hartford — about 25 min
Springfield, MA — about 20 min
(approximate drive times)
Suffield by the numbers
The facts behind the feeling.
Median household income$125,352$93,760 statewide
Median home value$401,700$343,200 statewide
Population15,6365,326 households
People per square mile370743 statewide
Sources: CERC Connecticut Town Profile, 2025 edition · advanceCT and CTData Collaborative · ACS 2019–2023.
Three places locals will mention first
Learn it like a local.
Suffield Land Conservancy
Volunteer-held preserves open to the public year-round.
Kent Memorial Library
The town library at 50 North Main Street.
Go deeper — straight from the source
From the town’s own website.
Making a home in Suffield
Median home value: $401,700. What yours is worth: a conversation.
Sallie King represents buyers and sellers across this whole region from her Suffield office. Current inventory lives on her MLS-connected site; strategy lives with her.