Preservation
The house was surveyed in 1940 by the Historic American Buildings Survey, which termed it the "Elisha Payne House" and also as "Prudence Crandall School for Negro Girls".
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
The house was studied in depth in 1981. The study "concluded that there had been only minor changes to the house since the occupancy of Prudence Crandall and that approximately 95% of the structure is unaltered."
The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1991.
It is located within the Canterbury Center Historic District, another listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is a museum and includes period rooms, changing exhibits, a small research library (available for in-house study) and a gift shop. It is located at the southeast corner of the junction of Connecticut Route 14 and Connecticut Route 169.
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