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The house was built c.1810 by Ebenezer Byram, who had purchased the land from Robert Hallowell Gardiner. In 1878, it was purchased by Henry and Laura E. Richards. Laura Richards was the daughter of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, the latter known for being the writer of the song "Battle Hymn of the Republic". The couple moved to ...
English: The Gardiner Building, located on the Long Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, is a brick Colonial style warehouse built in 1763 and rebuilt in 1812. At one time it was used as John Hancock's counting house. Long Wharf was once filled with this kind of building, but this is the only one remaining; it is the wharf's oldest surviving structure.
The Gardiner Historic District encompasses the historic 19th-century commercial heart of the city of Gardiner, Maine. Once a leading port and industrial center on the Kennebec River , Gardiner's Water Street downtown area retains the feel of its late 19th-century commercial success.
The Edwin Arlington Robinson House is an historic house at 67 Lincoln Avenue in Gardiner, Maine.A two-story wood-frame house, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its association with Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) one the United States' leading poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Bevier House is located on Bevier Road in Gardiner, New York, United States. It is a frame house built in the mid-19th century. It is one of the few remaining intact farmhouses in Gardiner from before the Civil War , with a decorative front facade and marbleized main staircase.
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Peter Grant was a native of Berwick, Maine who moved to Gardiner in 1790. Finding financial success in land speculation and the merchant trade, he purchased 200 acres (81 ha) between Gardiner and Hallowell in 1800, and built a house there. His first house was destroyed by fire, and he had this house built in 1830 as its replacement.
There are no corner posts or studs. Planks and hand-hewn beams provided the basic structure or skeleton of the house. Due to the hamlet's isolation, a cultural lag existed there, with the Trapps people continuing to build log and plank houses through the 1800s. Thin, rocky soil prevented the establishment of large farms in the Trapps.