Merrill-Poor House
- Address: ME 120
- Vicinity: NE of Andover
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1791/00/00 | Ezekiel Merrill | Home | Ezekiel Merrill builds the original dwelling, a two story hipped roof house with two large chimnies. | |||
1792/00/00 | Mary A Merrill Poor | Home | Merrill family settle into their new home. | |||
1877/00/00 | Henry Varnum Poor | Home | Henry Varnum Poor, grandson of Ezekiel and Sarah Poor, buys the family homestead from relatives that his grandparents had built many decades before. | |||
1890/00/00 | Edward Clarke Cabot | Architect | Cabot remodels the main house. Keeping the late C18th entrance hall with its staircase and original paneling, he built a dining room running the entire width of the house and created a maze of bedrooms which resembles a small summer hotel of the period. | |||
1896/00/00 | Henry Wlliam Poor | Home | The barn is replaced by The New House, a baronial hunting lodge that features a Great Hall. Family legend holds that Stanford White designed the room as a special favor to Will (Henry William Poor), who paid for its construction. | |||
1896/00/00 | Stanford White | Architect | The barn is replaced by The New House, a baronial hunting lodge that features a Great Hall. Family legend holds that Stanford White designed the room as a special favor to Will (Henry William Poor), who paid for its construction. |
Particulars for Merrill-Poor House: | |
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Historic Use | Agricultural outbuildings |
Architectural Style | American Colonial |
Architectural Style | American Colonial Revival |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Architectural Style | Greek Revival |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Area of Significance | Landscape Architecture |
Level of Significance | National |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
Area of Significance | Transportation |
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