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Common Name: Popple House Owner: Mrk & Sheri Rainville Street Address: 1250 Main Street

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Ref - 604_044_094

COMMON NAME: Popple House - Built CA 1830
(Our Research Goes Back To 1854)

ADDITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL OR STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTION:

1 1/2-Story, 3 x 3 bay, early vernacular Greek Revival structure w/a one story wing pluss ell additions. Sheathed in narrow clapboards w/aluminum siding on northwest facade. Cornerboards, wide frieze and slim box cornice w/returns. Reworked chimney. The entrance is located on the left, front gable. Pilasters carry a full, but plain entablature. Windows are 2/2 and 1/1 in plain lip mold surrounds. There is an enclosed shed-roofed porch on the south side of the wing.

<!-- 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 -->02 January 1947 <!-- Row 2 Column 2 -->	W.D.....Helen S. Grey to Howard W. and Madeline E. Popple..being the house and lot in Fairfax Village containing 3/4 acres of land, more or less, with house, barn and out buildings thereon, which were one time owned and occupied by Lucinda A. Tabor..being bounded as follows: on the north by the main road running through the center of the village, on the south and west by a pasture owned or occupied by Dr. G. L. Orton, on the east by premises owned or occupied by one Wilmer White and wife.......<!-- Row 2 Column 3 -->	34<!-- Row 2 Column 4 -->	131
<!-- Row 3 Column 1 -->04 June 1946<!-- Row 3 Column 2 -->	W.D...Cleon D. & Lucy D. Orton to Helen S. Grey......(same description as above)............<!-- Row 3 Column 3 -->	34<!-- Row 3 Column 4 -->	6
<!-- Row 4 Column 1 -->26 December 1914<!-- Row 4 Column 2 -->	Q.C...James Lewis to Lucy D. Orton....The house and lot in Fairfax Village containing 3/4 of an acre of land, more or less, with house and barn thereon standing<!-- Row 4 Column 3 -->	26<!-- Row 4 Column 4 -->	473
<!-- Row 5 Column 1 -->23 June 1904<!-- Row 5 Column 2 -->	WILL........Estate of Lucinda A. Tabor to James Lewis (son -in-law) the house and lot consisting of 3/4 acre of land....and to my adopted son, Wilbur E. White.......<!-- Row 5 Column 3 -->	33<!-- Row 5 Column 4 -->	91
<!-- Row 6 Column 1 -->02 August 1901<!-- Row 6 Column 2 -->	ADM...Estate of Purmont Tabor to Lucinda A. Tabor...the homestead consisting of a house, barn and outbuildings lying and being on the westerly side of main street in the Village of Fairfax.....<!-- Row 6 Column 3 -->	23<!-- Row 6 Column 4 -->	384
<!-- Row 7 Column 1 -->24 August 1889<!-- Row 7 Column 2 -->	W.D..C. M. Clow to Purmont Tabor...containing one acre of land, more or less with buildings thereon standing......<!-- Row 7 Column 3 -->	21<!-- Row 7 Column 4 -->	543
<!-- Row 8 Column 1 -->23 October 1886<!-- Row 8 Column 2 -->	W.D...J. M. Beeman & Son to C. M. Clow....bounded on the east by the highway running through Fairfax Village on the southerly and westerly by lands owned by Mrs. L. M. Bowditch and on the northerly by lands owned by O. Bishop, containing 1/2 acre of land with the buildings thereon standing.....<!-- Row 8 Column 3 -->	21<!-- Row 8 Column 4 -->	257<!-- Row 9 Column 1 -->

<!-- Row 1 Column 1 -->DATE<!-- Row 1 Column 2 -->	GRANTOR TO GRANTEE<!-- Row 1 Column 3 -->	BOOK<!-- Row 1 Column 4 -->	PAGE
11 March 1882<!-- Row 9 Column 2 -->	Q.C...to J. M. Beeman & Son from D. L. Allen & Mary B. Felton...one half acre of land with the buildings thereon standing bounded........<!-- Row 9 Column 3 -->	20<!-- Row 9 Column 4 -->	259
<!-- Row 10 Column 1 -->07 March 1879<!-- Row 10 Column 2 -->	Mary B. Felton to D. L. Allen....being the same land and premises deeded to me......<!-- Row 10 Column 3 -->	20<!-- Row 10 Column 4 -->	9
<!-- Row 11 Column 1 -->18 October 1875<!-- Row 11 Column 2 -->	Lorenzo D. and Emma Allen to Mary B. Felton.....being the same land and premises on which we now live, supposed to contain 70 rods of land be the same more or less.......<!-- Row 11 Column 3 -->	19<!-- Row 11 Column 4 -->	238
<!-- Row 12 Column 1 -->02 January 1872<!-- Row 12 Column 2 -->	W.D.....Caroline B. Wood to Mary B. Felton and L. Allen..the same land and premises on which I now live bounded as follows: Commencing at stake and stone on the line of the highway six rods fifteen and one-half feet from the northwest corner of the old Methodist chapel, thence in a right angle with the highway fourteen rods, thence parallel with the highway five rods, thence northerly at right angles with the highway and parallel with the first line fourteen rods to the highway, thence on the highway to the place of beginning supposed to contain 70 rods of ground.....<!-- Row 12 Column 3 -->	18<!-- Row 12 Column 4 -->	317
<!-- Row 13 Column 1 -->18 November 1852<!-- Row 13 Column 2 -->	W.D...S. W. Brush & wife to Caroline B. Wood..commencing at a stake and stones on the line of the highway six rods and fifteen and one-half feet from the northeast corner of the Old Methodist Chapel...to contain 70 rods of ground...(Selling price $90.00) Tax Records of 1853 list Caroline Wood with 1/2 acres of land valued at $25.00 Tax Records of 1854 list Caroline Wood with 1/2 acre of land and building. Dated May 27, 1854 - Value $200.00<!-- Row 13 Column 3 -->	13<!-- Row 13 Column 4 -->	355

Researched By: Sheri Bellows, Phyllis Kehley Sweeney & Marion Chaffee
March 12-13, 1986