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He built a large addition which included a tavern. The Farrar family lived in the house until 1857, when they sold it to the Mansurs, who occupied it for three generations until 1932. Frank Mansur donated the house to. the Community Club with the stipulation that it be restored and converted to a museum.
Windsor House: 54 Main Street: Greek Revival: 1836: A separate NRHP listing 70: Thomas Emerson-Edwin Stoughton House (Old Windsor Hospital) 48 Main Street: Federal: 1836: Served as Windsor's hospital from 1933 until the opening of the Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center in 1972. [6] [7] 71: Baptist Church: Main Street: Pseudo Gothic Revival ...
The group reconvened on June 4, 1777, at Windsor, a letter by Dr. Thomas Young of Philadelphia, who supported the attempt of independence, was read. Young urged the adoption of the name "Vermont" and the creation of a constitution for Vermont. On July 2, 1777, a constitutional convention met in Windsor at Elijah West's tavern.
Windsor is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As the "Birthplace of Vermont", the town is where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted in 1777, thus marking the founding of the Vermont Republic, a sovereign state until 1791, when Vermont joined the United States. Over much of its history, Windsor was home to a variety of ...
Pease's original house survives as an ell to an early 19th-century Federal style house. In 1795, Oliver Farrar built the tavern that faces the park bearing his family's name; it was the site of Weston's first town meeting. The park was formally laid out in the 1880s, at roughly the height of the village's prosperity. [2]
Tavern and inn owner Joab Hoisington (September 19, 1736 – February 28, 1777) was a militia officer on the Patriot side in the American Revolution . He was a founder of Windsor, Vermont and Woodstock, Vermont .
The Jeffrey House stands just north of Chester's Stone Village, set back about 200 feet (61 m) from the east side of Vermont Route 103.It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and wooden shingle siding.
After the railroad was built through the area about 1850, the turnpike declined in use, and the tavern was closed. It was thereafter used for many years as a private residence, and was adapted for mixed commercial and residential use in the 1970s. It currently (as of 2015) houses a restaurant on the ground floor and an apartment on the second ...