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Common Name: Old Steve Alderman's Store Owner: Vermont Food Ventures Street Address: 1128 Main Street

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Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Ref - 604_044_052

COMMON NAME: Old Steve Alderman's Store

ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:

2 1/2 Story, 40 x 40', commercial structure w/Italianate detail. Stone foundation, clapboard siding. The floors are dilineated by a beltcoarse. The parapets have a plain cornice w/double brackets. There are large storefront windows on the first floor of the front (east) facade. The storefront also has a cornice that repeats the double bracket detail of the roof cornice. Recessed entrances are located on the left and right of the east facade. Square 1/1 windows are framed in plain surrounds. This commercial building replaces an earlier structure that burned in c. 1900.

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19 Apr 1983	JUDGMENT & DECREE OF FORECLOSURE.....Howard & Freda Parsons vs Fairfax Village Store, Inc. et al......being a lost of land lot of land located on the southerly side of Main St. within the Village of Fairfax, together with the buildings thereon, commonly known as the Shepardson Block and bounded as follows:.........	52	181
04 Jun 1973<!-- Row 3 Column 1 -->	Howard & Freda Parsons to Fairfax Village Store, Inc. (John Simon & Wife)..........same description as above..........	43	88
29 Apr 1970<!-- Row 4 Column 1 -->	W.D.........Edward & Leona Thibault to Howard & Freda Parsons......same description as above, includes all buildings and improvements thereon.........	41	112

09 May 1968	WD.......Lamoille Lodge No. 6, F & A.M. to Edward & Leona Thibault.......being the upper story of a certain store building lying and being on the southerly side of the highway known as Main Street in Fairfax Village together with the stairs and stairway leading thereto. Said building being 56 feet long on Main Street and 60 feet long on Maple Street.........	40	208
25 May 1962<!-- Row 5 Column 1 -->	W.D.......Alson E. & Elizabeth M. Irish to Edward & Leona Thibault........(same description as above)........The buildings above mentioned and known as the Shepardson Block is subject to certain rights of the Lamoille Masonic Lodge #6 as deeded to them by E. D. Shepardson, November 4, 1899..........	38	179
31 May 1960<!-- Row 6 Column 1 -->	W.D.........Stephen P. Alderman to Alson E. & Elizabeth Irish.....same description as above........excepting a small lot of land sold to Theodore & Eva Kosla recorded in Vol 37, page 94A and dated July 3, 1958...........reserving here from all rights held by the Lamoille Masonic Lodge #6.......also serving as bill of sale for the following personal property and stock of merchandise.........	37	342
30 Jan 1947<!-- Row 7 Column 1 -->	Fay S. & Jennie L. Marvin to Stephen B. & Gwendolyn M. Alderman..........Commencing on the Parmlee or Mill Brook, running thence easterly on the southerly line of the highway known as Main Street so called;........to an iron stake standing 21 feet westerly from the southeast corner of the stone wall on which the building known as the "Shepardson Block" now stands........excepting from this a small lot commencing at a stake set 24 feet in a northerly direction from the northeast corner of the foundation wall..........	34	142
22 Oct 1929<!-- Row 8 Column 1 -->	W.D.......N. B. & H. I. Goodsell to F. S. and Jennie L. Marvin.....meaning to convey the lot of land described above, with the said Shepardson Block thereon........reserving there from all rights held by the Lamoille Lodge, a lot of land deeded to E. G. and Belle Marr (a blacksmith shop on the westerly side of Maple Street)............	29	214
31 Aug 1917	W.D......Guy L. Butler to Nellie B. Goodsell........(same description).........free from every encumbrance except a Lease given by G. L. Butler to H. I. And C. E. Goodsell dated August 27, 1917 which said Lease I hereby assign to Nellie B. Goodsell...........	27	248

26 Apr 1913	W.D...........Cora M. & Guy L. Butler to Luther B. Hunt......A certain piece of land described as follows: All my right and title in and to all the lands deed to me by EDS subject to the lease now on said building...............	26	259
11 May 1911<!-- Row 11 Column 1 -->	W.D........Edgar D. Shepardson to Cora M. Butler.......the following piece of land in Fairfax together with the buildings thereon........together with any or all fixtures, counters and shelving;.......this deed is subject to and depending on any and all claims now owned or held by the Lamoille Lodge in and to the upper or second story of the building on said premises.......(Selling price $3,700)	24	262
24 Sept 1910	LEASE..........Edgar D. Shepardson to H. I. Goodsell......hath and does hereby Lease unto the said Goodsell the store and Millinery room in his block in the Village of Fairfax, situated on the corner of Main and Maple Streets and all that part of said block used and occupied heretofore by C. W. Brush including the basement,........It is also understood that N. I. Goodsell has the right to buy said block or building consisting of the store herein leased, the store occupied by Guy Butler and all the land on which the same stands or belongs with the same........(In case of improvements, such as water closets or sewerage pipes........up goes the rent!)	1 Leases	181
09 May 1903<!-- Row 10 Column 1 -->	LEASE........E. D. Shepardson to Guy L. Butler......The North Store with the basement thereto in my building situated and being on the west side of the Highway in "Fairfax Hollow" so called, together with the fixtures thereunto to wit:...........	1 Leases	119
04 Nov 1899	Edgar D. Shepardson to Lamoille Lodge No. 6 F & A M.........The upper story of my new store lying and being on the southerly side of the highway known as Main Street in Fairfax Village together with the stairs and stairway leading to the same as now situated and opening onto Main Street. The said Shepardson is to at all times keep the outside of the building at all times well painted and is to keep the northerly half of the roof in repair. And the said Lamoille Lodge is to at all times keep the southerly half of the rooof in repair. Said building being 56 feet long on Main Street and 60 feet on Maple or Water Street (so-called) and said Shepardson is to at all times keep the underpinnings under said building in good repair.	22	186
27 Jan 1899<!-- Row 12 Column 1 -->	W.D........Ira E. Hunt to Edgar D. Shepardson........($1,100)........a certain piece of land lying and being in Fairfax Hollow (so-called) bounded easterly by the highway known as Main Street, southerly by Maple Street, westerly by lands of Sarah A. Learned's Estate and Northerly by Mill Brook Tax Records: 1899 Edgar D. Shepardson store lot Value $600 1900 Edgar D. Shepardson Store Value $2,000 - Dated May 15, 1900 Store Built The Summer Of 1899 (All the buildings in the center of town burned down in 1898)	22	174

Researched By: Marian Chaffee, Phyllis Kehley Sweeney & Sheri Bellows
Date: February 28, 1986