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Common Name: Paris/Groves House Owner: Walter & Kathy Lattrell Street Address: 1144 Main Street

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Ref - 604_044_062

COMMON NAME: Paris/Groves House

ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:

1 1/2 story, 3x3 bay house w/1x4 wing in rear. Right gable end entrance facing Main St. Stone foundation, clapboards, fascia, cornerboards. Metal gable roof has a fairly steep pitch. Two interior end half chimneys. Entrance: Full arched sidelights flank a 4-panel door. Recessed 6" and framed in heavy 6x6 surrounds. Windows are original 6/6 in plain surrounds. There are three kneewall windows on the north facade (left one is closed). A bay window was added to the north facade in 1979. There is a shed screen porch on the south eaves side of the wing that was added in C. 1950. A vertical plank, 1-story frame horse barn is situated west of the house. Gable end front with two 9-light windows. Built in C. 1850 by H. Stearns, this vernacular structure was sold to G. Russ in 1869.

DATE	GRANTOR TO GRANTEE		BOOK		PAGE
29 March 1979	Philip & Pearl Thayer to Robert F. & Drucilla M. Groves - being the land and premises known as the Giles Rugg Place containing 3/4 of an acre of land, more or less, with a house and out buildings thereon standing.........		47		122-123
14 May 1976	W.D.....Joseph & Janet Fleming to Philip & Pearl Thayer.....same description as above..........		44		390
29 March 1974	W.D........Leland & Claudette R. West to Joseph & Janet L. Fleming ......same description....................		43		308
12 August 1971	Olin W. & Avis Parris to Leland & Claudette R. West.............same description........		41		413
23 January 1952		P. C. Warner to Olin & Avis Parris (Quit Claim Deed)...........Avis's name added to this deed at this time.....		35		288
15 April 1947		Decree of Distribution (Elizabeth Parris to Olin Parris..........I give, and bequeath to my beloved son, Olin W. Parris, the home place where I now reside in Fairfax......................		34		310
21 June 1922		Bertha & Delno Beardsley to I. W. & Elizabeth Parris (boundaries only)		29		42
12 February 1917		Glenn & Delphine Parris to I. W. & Elizabeth Parris - The place known as the Giles Rugg place containing 3/4 of an acre of land, more or less, with a house and out buildings thereon standing, bounded northeasterly by the highway known as main street, leading through Fairfax Village, Southeasterly by lands owned and occupied by H. O. Wilkins, Trustee, southwesterly by lands owned and occupied by Bertha A. Beardsley, northwesterly by lands owned by Bertha Beardsley and S. S. Brigham and being all and the same lands and premises deeded to the late Giles Rugg by Henry Stearns and his wife, Mary Stearns.		27		194

DATE	GRANTOR TO GRANTEE	BOOK	PAGE
01 September 1916	W.D...........Lurena & Josephus Rugg to Glenn C. and Delphine A. Parris..........same description as above	27	96
18 July 1916	Q.C........Charles F. Rugg & Gertrude (Magee) Rugg to Josephus & Lurena Rugg.........the homestead on which the said Lurena now lives.......containing 3.4 acres of land more or less.................	27	80
08 February 1910	Giles Rugg to Josephus E. Rugg, Trustee (Trust Deed)	26	85-6
10 February 1870	W.D........Henry & Mary Stearns to Giles Rugg ................the following described land and bounded as follows: northeasterly by the highway leading through Fairfax Village, southeasterly by J. Sherman Halbert's land, southwesterly by M. V. Hicks land and northwesterly by Mrs. Abbie A. Stearn's land and said Hick's land it being our present homestead on which we now live....... This house shown on Beer's Atlas of 1871 - Giles Rugg living here - May 1870 Tax Records lists to Giles as 1/2 acre. Same 1/2 acre and house is listed to Henry Stearns in 1869	18	41

Researched by Marion Chaffee
May 1974