Gablehurst, Entrance to Main Dwelling

Gablehurst, Entrance to Main Dwelling

Gablehurst: Entrance through an avenue of old elms and approach to the main dwelling. Gablehurst was built circa 1859 by Rev. E. Edwin Hall for his wife, a native of Switzerland. Subsequent owners added modern amenities as they were available. In 1906 it was purchased by Edward C. Seward. "It had a great big stable with a tower on it. We had four straight stalls and two box stalls, a harness room, a carriage room with a number of carriages in it. There was originally a water tank in the tower but we got hitched up to city water pretty soon." (from the oral history with grandson W. Saxton Seward, 1981) At the time it was destroyed by fire in June, 1925, it was owned by Mrs. E. C. Seward, and was leased to the Cameron School. The School had been at Pipe Bay (Indian Cove) at the camp of Mrs. Theodora Hooker until Mary Beattie secured Gablehurst. The carriage house was renovated in 1998 and the entrance moved from York Street (Boston Post Road) to 303 North River Street.

Edith B. Nettleton Historical Room Collection

Guilford Free Library

circa 1900

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