The Gilman Manse is an historic home at 463
Lafayette Street in
Yarmouth
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*Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia
**Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
**Municipality of the District of Yarmouth
**Yarmouth (provincial electoral district)
**Yarmouth (electoral district)
* Yarmouth Township, Ontario
*New ...
,
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...
. Built in 1771, making it one of the oldest extant buildings in the town, it was originally the home of
Tristram Gilman
Tristram Gilman (November 24, 1735 – April 1, 1809) was an American Congregational minister who served as the fourth pastor of the "Old Ledge" meetinghouse in what was then North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now Yarmouth, Maine), for forty years ...
, the fourth minister of the now-demolished
Meetinghouse under the Ledge, which stood around to the northeast between 1729 and 1836. It succeeded the
Cutter House, at 60 Gilman Road, as the
parsonage
A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of religion. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, parsonage, rectory or vicarage.
Function
A clergy house is typically own ...
for the church.
In 1905,
John Calvin Stevens
John Calvin Stevens (October 8, 1855 – January 25, 1940) was an American architect who worked in the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style. He designed more than 1,000 buildings in the state of Maine ...
was hired to undertake a renovation of the property.
[Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018](_blank)
- Yarmouth's town website)
It was the home of Arthur E. Marks (1853–1917) in 1911, and of Merrill and Grace Haskell from 1928.
See also
*
Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine The historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine, represent a variety of building styles and usages, largely based on its past as home to almost sixty mills over a period of roughly 250 years. These mills include that of grain, lumber, pul ...
References
External links
464 Lafayette Street- Vision Government Solutions
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Residential buildings in Yarmouth, Maine
Houses completed in 1771
Clergy houses in the United States