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Date of search - Aug 13, 1976 |
Baptist Church Parsonage |
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 604_044_090
COMMON NAME: Colleen Steen House Built 1865
(Research done by Marion Chaffee in 1976 shows a date of 1853)
ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:
1 1/2 story, 3x2 bay structure, sheathed in clapboards. Cornerboards. Concrete faced stone foundation. Wide overhang w/rafter ends showing. On front there is a hip-roofed porch with turned posts, spindle valance and railing. A large center oriel window rises from the porch roof. In its gable two smaller lancet windows flank a larger center lancet window w/diamond pattern muntins. The center entrance has a plain surround and a set of narrow 1/1 sash on each side w/louvered shutters. Gable end windows have shallow pitch lintel boards on the first floor and lip moldings on the second. There is an ell attached to the rear (southwest) that has two clapboard wing extensions. This attractive picturesque cottage was the residence of Rev. S. J. Elliot in 1857 and Mrs. L. Lawrence in 1871.
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DATE OF DEED |
GRANTOR TO GRANTEE |
BOOK |
PAGE |
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20 May 1977 |
Trustees of the First Baptist Church of Fairfax to Burton J. & Colleen Steen WD.....A lot of land with buildings thereon situated on the southerly side of Route 104 so-called, in the Town of Fairfax, and being more particularly described as follows |
45 |
232 |
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16 Aug 1875 |
Lucy D. Lawrence Adm. Estate of T. S. Lawrence to J. H. Farnsworth, H.H. Safford and Ira Hunt....Administrator's deed....FOR THE BENEFIT AND USE OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF FAIRFAX..... |
19 |
281 |
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08 Oct 1870 |
Martin and Julia Hawley to Lucy D. Lawrence....W.D....being the same premises now occupied by us as a homestead... |
18 |
138 |
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28 Apr 1870 |
Cyrus Leach to Martin Hawley....W.D.....about one acre of land with the buildings thereon standing and is the same premises now occupied by said Juliana Barrett.... |
18 |
74 |
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29 Oct 1864 |
Juliania Barrette Executric, Estate of Philander Barrette to Cyrus leach...Adm. Deed....being the house and lot occupied by the said Philander Barrette at the time of his death, said lot containing one acre of land more or less....also a lot containing one acre more or less.... |
16 |
658 |
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04 Oct 1858 |
Eli B. Smith to Philander Barrette....W.D....containing one acre with a house and barn thereon standing.... |
15 |
328 |
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01 Feb 1853 |
Truman Galusha etals to Eli B. Smith a certain peice of land lying and being in Fairfax....commencing at the northwest corner of the Baptist Meeting House Ground on the west line of the highway....E. B. Smith is to maintain the fence next to the meeting ground....(Truman Galusha, H. L. Parker and L. A. Dunn were trustees for the Northern Educational Union....) |
13 |
436 |
| Searched this far by Marion Chaffee | Approved - Aug 22, 1976 |