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Common Name: Tom & Daisy Collins House Owner: Tom & Daisy Collins Street Address: 1170 Main Street

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Ref - 604_044_080

COMMON NAME: Tom Collins House

ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:

2 Story, L-shaped plan, clapboarded structure. The right section, w/the gable facing the road was used as a millinary shop in the 19th century and is believed to be earlier than the main section which is 45 x 2 bays. This building has a fairly wide roof overhang, cornerboards, and a frieze. There are two front entrances, one on the right side of the eaves front, and the other centrally located in the gable front. The gabled (store) entrance is flanked by a large 6/6 window on each side. Other windows are 2/2 w/lip moldings. There is also a gable wall dormer on the center eaves front. A one story porch w/turned columns spans the front of both sections. The south gable end has a bay window on the right side. The vernacular Queen Anne structure was built by John Howard. West of the building there is a 2 story, early 20th century gambrel-roofed barn w/vertical plank siding. Good condition

<!-- Row 1 Column 1 -->DATE<!-- Row 1 Column 2 -->	GRANTOR TO GRANTEE<!-- Row 1 Column 3 -->	BOOK<!-- Row 1 Column 4 -->	PAGE
14 Jun 1966	W.D..........Flossie M. Evans to Thomas E. & Daisy M. Collins........3 W.D's........conveying 1/4 acre of land more or less, with house and outbuildings thereon, and located on the westerly side of Main Street in Fairfax Village.......a small piece of land containing 23 1/2 square rods.............	39	321
30 Apr 1958<!-- Row 3 Column 1 -->	W.D..........Delbert D. Howard to Perley S. and Flossie M. Evans......A parcel of land with the buildings thereon, as described in 2 certain warranty deeds.........same description as above...............	37	83
16 Oct 1933<!-- Row 4 Column 1 -->	W.D......Flora A. Howard, widow to Delbert D. Howard.......same description.........	32	265

28 Nov 1916<!-- Row 5 Column 1 -->	W.D...........Sidney S. Brigham to John S. and Flora A. Howard........1/4 acre, more or less, with house and barn thereon standing..................	27	175
20 Feb 1905<!-- Row 6 Column 1 -->	ADM........Donley C. Hawley, Executor of Curtis F. Hawley Estate to Sidney S. Brigham............$1700............the home place on which C. F. Hawley lived at the time of his decease. Lying and being on the westerly side of the highway known as Main Street running through the village of Fairfax. Containing 1/4 acre of land, more or less, with a house and barn thereon standing..........	24	384
11 Jun 1883<!-- Row 7 Column 1 -->	W.D........Hattie E. Learned to Curtis F. Hawley........About 1/4 acre of land on which my store and shed now stand and bounded on the easterly side by the highway: on the southerly side by lands owned by E. A. Soules, on the westerly side by land of said Sowles & H. F. Hall; and on the northerly side by land of H. F. Hall; supposed to contain 1/4 acre of land, be the same more or less, with such store furniture as said Hawley has used under his lease from said Learned. Being the same piece of land deeded to me by my father, J. M. Hotchkiss on the 23rd day of June 1874	19	173
23 Jun 1874<!-- Row 8 Column 1 -->	W.D.......J. E. Hotchkiss to Harriet E. H. Learned.......in consideration of $1.00........and a further consideration of her having been a very kind and obedient daughter..........About 1/4 acre of land upon which my store and shed now stands bounded on the easterly side by the highway, on the southerly side by land owned by Abraham Foss occupied as a Tavern, on the westerly by land owned by A. Foss and H. F. Hall, on the northerly side by land owned by H. F. Hall, supposed to contain 1/4 acre be the same more or less........	18	684

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