An 18th-Century Connecticut Estate With ‘Little Women’ Ties Lists for $1.5 Million—Hidden Treasures Included

An 18th-century antique home in Wolcott, CT, with ties to a famous clockmaker and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra just hit the market for $1.5 million.Listed for the first time in decades, the 1.94-acre property known as Spindle Hill includes a 5,360-square-foot primary residence, a hand-hewn barn, a manor home, an a history of treasure-filled walls."When you walk into the original section of the home, you feel the history," says listing agent Donna Membrino of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty. "The keeping room has an original beehive oven and a wooden mantel."Loading...Original weathered wood—salvaged from older, dismantled sections of the house—was used to detail the grand salon.Corrado Galizia PhotographyLoading...A modernized kitchen, with Shaker cabinetry and granite countertops, flows into a sunny dining room.Corrado Galizia PhotographyLoading...This violin was discovered hidden in the floorboards of the home.Corrado Galizia PhotographyThe property’s origins date to the early 1700s, when the land was purchased by the town’s first settler, the patriarch of the Alcott family, according to Membrino. Nathaniel Lane and Millicent Alcott Lane, the uncle and aunt of "Little...