Ralph & Harriette McGue House - 1140 Main St. -Date of search

Date of search - xxxx

Common Name: McGue House
Owner: Willard & Mary Rowell
Street Address: 1140 Main Street

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - 604_044_062

COMMON NAME: McGue House Built CA 1861

ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:

2 1/2-story, 3 x 3 bay, post-and-beam vernacular Greek Revival structure in weatherboards w/cornerboards. The main entrance is located on the left gable end, facing Main St. 2/3 sidelights flank the door which exits onto a gable entrance porch (c.1930) w/rail. There is also a shed porch on the south facade. Windows are 2/2, except on the east gable end, where there are two 6/6 windows on the second story. A massive stone chimney has been added to the exterior west end of the wing. Located immediately west of the dwelling, there is a c.1850, 1 1/2 story, 18 x 30', horse barn that has been converted into a garage. Clapboards, gable roof. Owned by H. Stearns in 1871. It was the Harriette McGue Estate in 1980 and currently up for sale at that time.

<!-- 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 -->10 January 1946 <!-- Row 2 Column 2 -->	Dean P. Blake to Ralph and Eleanor McGue W.D...Being a parcel of land with the dwelling house and barn thereon bounded as follows...meaning to convey a piece or parcel of land from the premises conveyed to me by Indiana Grow having a width of 71 feet and a depth of 185 feet...... Ralph boutht the remainder of the lot from Dean October 3, 1953 and is recorded in Book 36 Page 37<!-- Row 2 Column 3 -->	33<!-- Row 2 Column 4 -->	442
<!-- Row 3 Column 1 -->10 January 1946 <!-- Row 3 Column 2 -->	Indiana C. Grow to Dean P. Blake...W.D.....Being the home place of the late R. B. Wilkins and wife, later occupied by H. O. Wilkins in his lifetime and containing about 2 acres of land be the same more or less with the buildings thereon.... <!-- Row 3 Column 3 -->	33<!-- Row 3 Column 4 -->	441
<!-- Row 4 Column 1 -->14 December 1921 <!-- Row 4 Column 2 -->	Carey B. Wilkins Hewey et als to Indiana C. Wilkins Grow....Q.C......Being the home place of the late R. B. Wilkins and wife...and containing about 2 acres of land with the buildings thereon and located in Fairfax Village...... <!-- Row 4 Column 3 -->	29 <!-- Row 4 Column 4 -->	309
<!-- Row 5 Column 1 -->26 August 1925 <!-- Row 5 Column 2 -->	Quit Claim - Indiana C. Grow to G. H. Lawton...Being the so-called R. B. Wilkins place lying and being on the westerly side of Main Street in the village of Fairfax and now occupied by the said Indiana C. and Fred E. Grow as a homestead and the same premises occupied by H. O. Wilkins, father of Indiana C. Grow and son of the late R. B. Wilkins during his lifetime..... <!-- Row 5 Column 3 -->	29 <!-- Row 5 Column 4 -->	499
<!-- Row 6 Column 1 -->26 August 1925 <!-- Row 6 Column 2 -->	G. H. Lawton to F. E. and Indiana Grow Quit Claim.....all and the same land and premises which are mentioned in a QC deed given by Grow to Lawton and is the premises known as the R. B. Wilkins place in Fairfax Village and consisting of a lot of land with house and out buildings thereon standing.... <!-- Row 6 Column 3 -->	29 <!-- Row 6 Column 4 -->	500

<!-- Row 1 Column 1 -->DATE<!-- Row 1 Column 2 -->	GRANTOR TO GRANTEE<!-- Row 1 Column 3 -->	BOOK<!-- Row 1 Column 4 -->	PAGE
<!-- Row 7 Column 1 -->07 December 1901 <!-- Row 7 Column 2 -->	R. B. Wilkins Estate..........Decree.....This decree left his home place to his wife Lucy during her natural lifetime, thence to his son, H. O. Wilkins; and at his death to the children of H. O. Wilkins <!-- Row 7 Column 3 -->	23 <!-- Row 7 Column 4 -->	446
<!-- Row 8 Column 1 -->09 August 1880 <!-- Row 8 Column 2 -->	Martin V. and Cordelia J. Hicks to Robert B. Wilkins....W.D.......All and the same land and premises...bounded as follows: Northeasterly by Main Street in Fairfax Village, southeasterly by School Lane so called leading from Main Street to School House in District #5; southwesterly by land of Hiram Bellows Estate and northwesterly by land owned by the said Hiram Bellows Estate and land of Giles Rugg...... <!-- Row 8 Column 3 -->	19 <!-- Row 8 Column 4 -->	126 <!-- Row 9 Column1 -->
29 December 1874<!-- Row 9 Column 2 -->	Lester C. and Charlotte C. Hicks to Cordelia J. Hicks....W.D......all the same lands and premises heretofore deeded.... NO BOUNDARIES GIVEN<!-- Row 9 Column 3 -->	18<!-- Row 9 Column 4 -->	727
<!-- Row 10 Column 1 -->02 November 1874<!-- Row 10 Column 2 -->	Edgar J. and Clara P. Pease to Lester C. Hicks....W.D. Same Description as above<!-- Row 10 Column 3 -->	18<!-- Row 10 Column 4 -->	710
<!-- Row 11 Column 1 -->23 March 1874<!-- Row 11 Column 2 -->	Murray and Susan M. Buck to E. J. Pease ....W.D.....Bounded northeasterly by the highway leading through Fairfax Village to Cambridge, southeasterly by the school house lane, leading from the main road to the School house in School District #5; southwesterly by lands of Henry Stearns; and northwesterly by said Stearns and Giles Rugg land supposed to be 2 acres of land, more or less, and is the same on which we now live......<!-- Row 11 Column 3 -->	18<!-- Row 11 Column 4 -->	647

DATE

GRANTOR TO GRANTEE

BOOK

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01 August 1871

Henry & Mary L. Stearns to Murray Buck....W.D......supposed to be two acres of land be the same more or less......

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01 March 1870

J. S. and Lottie E. Halbert to Henry Stearns...W.D......the following described land in Fairfax aforesaid described as follows, viz: Same boundaries as above...supposed to be two acres of land be the same more or less.....

1870 Tax Records dated May 14, 1870 read:
Henry Stearns - 2 A and bldgs - $775

The Halberts, (two generations) seem to have owned this from the late 1850's but it is not very clear. Vol 16, pages 597 and 122 might be of help if anyone wants to track this farther. The mortgage is dated November 12, 1860.

1861 Tax Records read:
J. R. Halbert 2 A and Bldgs $850

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Researched by Marion Chaffee
February 1975