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T h e J A R V I S H o u s e
A Shingle Style Victorian House From Yesteryear
MY OWN LIVE-IN MUSEUM |
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Home
About the House
Tour the House
Foyer
Parlor
Back Parlor
Conservatory
Dining Room
Second Floor Hall
Guest Room
Servants Room
About Myself
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About the House |
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This home was originally built for Charles and Louisa Jarvis, where they raised 3 children. According to the 1880 census, Charles L. Jarvis was a quarry foreman at the Middlesex Quarry Company, where his father, Charles A. Jarvis, was secretary & treasurer. Charles and Louisa Jarvis commissioned David R. Brown and his apprentice, Ferdinand Von Beron (later to be called Brown & Von Beron Architects), to design them this Shingle Style Victorian. According to The Penny Press newspaper, "The Charles Jarvis' home is almost finished on the outside, and once the plaster is ready inside, the finishers will be completing the interior trimmings on one of the sightliest sections of Main Street- Sept. 1887." |
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Charles and Louisa had three: children Marshall, Henry, and Pauline. They also had a male servant name Frontier Anderson and a "nurse" named Charlotte Malewski. There is a servants room in the attic pretty well intact complete with toilet, bath tub, marble corner sink, and servants call bell all disconnected today. My hope is to get it all back running. The room is very small but has a radiator and a closet.
Louisa died in 1926 and Charles lived here until his death in 1936. Then the house was handed over to Marshal Jarvis. Marshall and his wife Marion then lived in this house, where they raised their three children until 1976, when Marion died.
Some alterations happened during the time of Marshall and the next owners.
An eyebrow window was removed, as it had rotted badly. This window faced the front and was on the left side when facing the house.
The front porch railings have been replaced with a simpler design due to rot.
A wall between the front parlor and back parlor or library was removed, though the fretwork for the door has been found in the attic still intact.
All bathrooms rooms and kitchen were updated and the butlers pantry gutted to make room for a laundry room.
Below are pictures of the house decorated for the Memorial day parade. Bunting was commonly loaded onto a house heavily like so many Victorians interiors. |
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Below is a photo given to me from 1940's. You can see the house was painted white in then. In 1887, the trim was green, the body of the first floor clapboard Dark Brown Red, and all the shingles were a dark terra cotta. The colors were very similar to the Wilderstein mansion on the Hudon River in NY or the Villa Montezuma Mansion in San Diego CA. |
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Below is an image from the census report. It is very difficult to read what the one of the servant's names was, but you can get the idea. |
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