Common Name: Clarice Shepardson House
Owner: Trevor & Lorraine Campbell
Street Address: 1154 Main Street

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Ref - 604_044_067

COMMON NAME: Clarice Shepardson House

ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:

 Typical small vernacular 19th c. dwelling. 1 1/2 - story, 3 x 2 bay house with a 4 x 1 ell that has an enclosed shed portch on the south side. Stone foundation covered w/particle board. Interior chimney on south end of ell. Left gable end entrance has 3/4 length sidelights above panels. Simpld door surround (opening covered) has a plain cornice board. Windows are 2/2 plain surrounds. An added shed garage in rear has novelty siding.

<!-- Row 1 Column 1 -->DATE<!-- Row 1 Column 2 -->	GRANTOR TO GRANTEE<!-- Row 1 Column 3 -->	BOOK<!-- Row 1 Column 4 -->	PAGE
<!-- Row 2 Column 1 -->06 June 1925<!-- Row 2 Column 2 -->	F. E. & Indiana Grow to H. D. and Clarice Shepardson....W.D......All and the same land and premises.....is a lot of land with house and barn thereon standing lying on the westerly side of the highway known as Main Street........... <!-- Row 2 Column 3 -->	29<!-- Row 2 Column 4 -->	111
<!-- Row 3 Column 1 -->11 October 1920 <!-- Row 3 Column 2 -->	Flora B. and Clinton B. Goodsell to F. E. & Indiana Groww...W.D.....said place is situated on the west side of Main Street....Northerly by lands of A. B. Beeman and Mary L. Wheeler, easterly by the highway known as Main St., so-called, southerly by lands owned by S. S. Brigham and G. P. Quinlan and westerly by lands of A. B. Beeman, Mary L. Wheeler and Bertha Beardsley......<!-- Row 3 Column 3 -->	27	545
<!-- Row 4 Column 1 -->26 September 1917 <!-- Row 4 Column 2 -->	John E. & Hannah E. Quinlan to Flora B. Goodsell......W.D......Same as above.... <!-- Row 4 Column 3 -->	27	255
<!-- Row 5 Column 1 -->02 January 1908 <!-- Row 5 Column 2 -->	George R. Kenfield to John E. & George F. Quinlan...W.D......a house and lot in Fairfax Village bounded on the northerly and westerly by A. B. Beeman's home place on the southerly by Mrs. H. A. Donaldson's place and on the easterly by Main Street, so-called........ <!-- Row 5 Column 3 -->	24 <!-- Row 5 Column 4 -->	168
<!-- Row 6 Column 1 -->01 November 1900 <!-- Row 6 Column 2 -->	Elvira J. Bell to George R. Kenfield..W.D.....My home place lying and being on Main Street in Fairfax Village..... <!-- Row 6 Column 3 -->	22 <!-- Row 6 Column 4 -->	199
<!-- Row 7 Column 1 -->03 November 1899 <!-- Row 7 Column 2 -->	John B. Bell Estate to Elvira J. Bell...Court Decree.....Same description as above <!-- Row 7 Column 3 -->	23 <!-- Row 7 Column 4 -->	221

<!-- Row 1 Column 1 -->DATE<!-- Row 1 Column 2 -->	GRANTOR TO GRANTEE<!-- Row 1 Column 3 -->	BOOK<!-- Row 1 Column 4 -->	PAGE
<!-- Row 8 Column 1 -->07 November 1876 <!-- Row 8 Column 2 -->	Ambrose Menard to John B. Bell...W.D.......Commencing on the highway at the northerly corner between said lot and lot owned by B. C. Alfred, thence running southerly on a line parallel with the northerly side of said building ten feet beyond the corner of said house, thence running southerly on a line parallel with the westerly side of said house to Phoebe Bixby's line thence easterly on said Bixby's line to the highway, thence on said highway northerly to the first mentioned corner containing one-fourth acre of land more or less, for a more particular description reference being had to deed from Lester C. Hicks recorded in Fairfax Town Clerk's office in Volume 18, Page 621 of land records The said Menard off the piazza is to clapboard the house, put in the windows and case them on the inside, put in the front door and finish it. The said Bell to furnish all the material. There is a mortgage on said place of $150.00, $50.00 to B. C. Alfred, $50.00 to L. B. Hunt and $50.00 to E. J. Pease which the said Bell is to pay. <!-- Row 8 Column 3 -->	19	38 <!-- Row 9 Column1 -->
09 February 1874<!-- Row 9 Column 2 -->	Lester C. Hicks to Ambrose Menard.....W.D.....All and the same land and premises except a shop burned down heretofore deeded to me by B. C. Alfred.....This description starts with: a certain piece of land in Fairfax, Vermont.....Cost: $150.00<!-- Row 9 Column 3 -->	18	621
<!-- Row 10 Column 1 -->09 February 1874<!-- Row 10 Column 2 -->	MORTGAGE DEED - Ambrose Menard to Lester C. Hicks....three promissory notes in writing all dated February 9, 1874 given for $50.00 each executed and signed by said Menard and payable to said Hicks or bearor with interest annually. One note payable on or before two years from date, one note payable on or before two years and six months from date, and one note payable on or before three years from date, and shall also on or before the 10th day of May next to erect or cause to be erected a dwelling house on the above described lands and premises, and cause said dwelling house to be well insured and kept insured for the benefit of said Hicks..... House probably erected in summer of 1874<!-- Row 10 Column 3 -->	18<!-- Row 10 Column 4 -->	622

Researched By: Marion Chaffee and Barbara Norton - July 7, 1977

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