MONROE, CT — White colonials on adjacent properties on Monroe Turnpike were actually parts of the same house at one time, before Samuel B. Hurd decided to detach the back of his home at 777 Monroe Turnpike and move it down the street. When Hurd and his wife Flora’s son, Lewis, got married, he moved in with his wife Shirley. In 1937, “supposedly because Flora and her daughter-in-law were not able to get along in the kitchen, the ell of the home was detached and moved 200 feet north, becoming a separate house with a 783 street number,” according to the book, “Monroe Through Time II.” However, Robert Hurd, who grew up at 777 Monroe Turnpike and moved into the “newer” house at 783 Monroe Turnpike with his wife, Brenda, in 1989, said his grandfather, Samuel, separated the back of the house to create a rental property. He paid an oxen team to haul the portion of the house, according to Hurd. “My sister still has the bill,” he said of Carol Ek.
