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Common Name: Hudson House Owner: Sam & Pat Hudson Street Address: 1230 Main Street

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Ref - 604_044_092

COMMON NAME: Hudson House - Built CA 1860

ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:

1 1/2-story, 3 x 1 bay, Carpenter Gothic house w/a steeply-pitched gable roof and exposed rafter ends. Sheathed in narrow clapboards w/cornerboards and an unusual frieze; a wide bead board w/sawtooth treatment at bottom. The central bay has a pavilion w/a first floor Gothic porch w/eaves balustrade. The gable has a gable screen w/ornate scrollwork repeated on a larger scale in the end gables. There is a second floor arched window w/two lancet sections. The front porch is supported by chamfered posts and pilasters on pedestals. Brackets have cut-out detailing. The entrance is tall w/a molded shallow pitched lintel board that also has cut-out detail. Windows are wide 2/2 w/small scrollcut hoods supported by brackets. Louvred shutters. There is a 1 1/2-story, 28 x 12', clapboarded, gable-roofed horse barn southwest of main house of contemporaneous date. The main house is an exceptional example of Carpenter Gothic architecture in Vermont.

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<!-- Row 2 Column 1 -->07 August 1958 <!-- Row 2 Column 2 -->	James M. & Elizabeth D. Wallace to Samuel T. & Patricia H. Hudson........A lot of land with all bldgs thereon containing 2 acres, more or less, and located on the westerly side of Main Street in the village of Fairfax........<!-- Row 2 Column 3 -->	37<!-- Row 2 Column 4 -->	108
<!-- Row 3 Column 1 -->23 August 1954<!-- Row 3 Column 2 -->	G. L. Orton, widower to Mrs. Elizabeth Orton Wallace......QC DEED....Being a parcel of land containing one acre, more or less, with the bldgs thereon standing, and being a part of the same land and premises......bounded on the north by land of Alfred Tellstone and wife, on the east by Main Street and on the south and east by Main Street and on the south west by land of Fred and Agnes Stowell.........<!-- Row 3 Column 3 -->	36<!-- Row 3 Column 4 -->	112
<!-- Row 4 Column 1 -->10 August 1955<!-- Row 4 Column 2 -->	(Two straw deeds for the purpose of adding James M. Wallace's name to Elizabeth's deed.......(Both QC Deeds).........<!-- Row 4 Column 3 -->	?<!-- Row 4 Column 4 -->	?

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<!-- Row 5 Column 1 -->05 May 1936<!-- Row 5 Column 2 -->	Hobart F. Leach to G. L. Orton.......Twelve acres and eighty rods of land, more or less, with dwelling house and outbuildings thereon standing, being all and the same land and premises..........<!-- Row 5 Column 3 -->	30<!-- Row 5 Column 4 -->	128
<!-- Row 6 Column 1 -->17 June 1948<!-- Row 6 Column 2 -->	(Mr. Orton sold the balance of the above parcel to Fred and Agnes Stowell reserving unto himself........A parcel of land with bldgs thereon, now occupied by the grantor herein as a homestead, being a portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to said grantor by the above cited deeds. Reserved lands and premises described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe which marks the southeast corner of the grantor's property and the northeast corner of the grantees, which iron pipe is approximately 42 feet west from the center of the main highway, thence running in a general westerly direction, parallel with a row of elm trees, about one foot south of said row of elm trees, a distance approximately 304 feet to another iron stake; thence turning as nearly at right angles as possible, but without the use of instruments, and running in a general northerly direction, parallel with the aforesaid main highway, a distance of approximately 321 feet to an iron stake; thence turning almost at right angles and running toward the main highway easterly, and parallel with the first mentioned line, a distance of approximately 304 feet to an iron stake; thence turning in a general southerly direction and running parallel with the road, a distance of approximately 321 feet to the iron stake and place of beginning.........(Good description of Sam and Pat's property)<!-- Row 6 Column 3 -->	?<!-- Row 6 Column 4 -->	?

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<!-- Row 7 Column 1 -->29 October 1913<!-- Row 7 Column 2 -->	Susan S. & Augustus Dunning to Hobart F. Leach.......W.D........All and the same lands and premises deeded by Ellen E. Hicks to H. M. Wilcox September 12, 1892.....Bounded northeast by the highway known as Main Street, North westerly by lands of Mrs. D. Powers and Ira C. Bishop, southwesterly by lands of Polly J. Farnsworth, and southeasterly by lands owned and occupied by Mrs. Damond Howard containing twelve acres and eithty rods of land with dwelling house and barns thereon standing...........<!-- Row 7 Column 3 -->	26<!-- Row 7 Column 4 -->	342
<!-- Row 8 Column 1 -->26 February 1913<!-- Row 8 Column 2 -->	Estate of Henrietta M. Wilcox to Susan Slosson Dunning (Cousin)....Decree of Distribution.......The late home place of said deceased consisting of land with dwelling house and outbuildings thereon.....all the resideu of this estate both real and personal.........<!-- Row 8 Column 3 -->	26<!-- Row 8 Column 4 -->	243<!-- Row 9 Column 1 -->
12 September 1892<!-- Row 9 Column 2 -->	Ellen E. (Drew) Hicks to Henrietta M. Wilcox......W.D.........containing twelve acres and eithty rods of land with dwelling house and barns thereon standing.........<!-- Row 9 Column 3 -->	22<!-- Row 9 Column 4 -->	71
<!-- Row 10 Column 1 -->01 January 1879<!-- Row 10 Column 2 -->	F. Wayland Shepardson to Ellen E. Drew.......W.D........bounded northeasterly by Main Street in Fairfax, northwesterly by land of David Rowley and Orville Bishop's land, southwesterly by lands of Carlos H. Farnsworth, and south easterly by land owned and occupied by Damon Howard containing twelve acres and eithty rods of land with dwelling house and outbuildings thereon standing........<!-- Row 10 Column 3 -->	19<!-- Row 10 Column 4 -->	95
<!-- Row 11 Column 1 -->27 September 1878<!-- Row 11 Column 2 -->	Ira and Calia S. Hunt to F. Wayland Shepardson......W.D.....containing twelve acres and eighty rods of land with dwelling house and outbuildings thereon standing...........<!-- Row 11 Column 3 -->	19<!-- Row 11 Column 4 -->	93

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<!-- Row 12 Column 1 -->06 March 1868<!-- Row 12 Column 2 -->	James Upham (of Boston, formerly of Fairfax) to Ira Hunt.......W.D.......lying and being in Fairfax and bounded as follows.....easterly by the Main Street, a few rods north of the Institution grounds, southerly by land owned by N. G. Wells, northerly by land owned by Joseph Bowdish, westerly by land owned by joseph Bowdish and Julia Ann Hobart containing twelve acres and eithty rods of ground, be the same more or less........<!-- Row 12 Column 3 -->	17<!-- Row 12 Column 4 -->	488
<!-- Row 13 Column 1 -->23 April 1859<!-- Row 13 Column 2 -->	Joseph Bowdish to James Upham......W.D......Beginning at the northeast corner of said Upham's land on the highway, thence westerly on the line of said Upham's land about one hundred nine rods and twelve links to the northwest corner of said Upham's land and southwest corner of my land, thence northerly on my line twenty rods to a stake and stones, thence easterly about sixty-eight rods to M. A. Cummings northwest corner, thence southerly on said Cummings west line ten rods to his southwest corner, thence easterly on said Cummings south line to the highway, thence southerly on said highway to the first mentioned bounds........... Howard Leach rented this house while Mrs. Wallace owned it. Edith died while they were living there. Elizabeth Wallace was Dr. Stuart Orton's sister <!-- Row 13 Column 3 -->	16<!-- Row 13 Column 4 -->	81

Researched By: Marion Chaffee - November 1989

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