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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1894/00/00 Charles H Brigham Architect Construction begins on a grand summer home for Henry H Rogers near Fort Phoenix in the southern part of Fairhaven (lost, site near the intersection of Phoenix St and Green St).
1895/00/00 Henry Huttleston Rogers Home A new 85-room summer mansion (lost) is completed for Henry H Rogers in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
1915/00/00 Seedlings from the Henry H Rogers Summer estate are planted on the lawn at the Unitarian Church. Large copper beech trees are moved to Planting Fields in Oyster Bay, New York.
1915/00/00 William Hawes, a New Bedford broker, buys the 37-room children's wing of the Henry H Rogers Summer house and moves it to 9 Doane St.
1915/00/00 After Fairhaven, a town of 6,200 residents, refuses an offer to buy the Rogers family summer home for $1, Harry Rogers sells fragments of the mansion before it is razed.

Places

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Planting Fields Arboretum
  • NRHP
Unitarian Memorial Church
  • NRHP

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Particulars for Henry H Rogers Summer House Wing:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Building Type House
Architectural Style Italianate
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling




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