
Down the street from Farnum's bungalow is the oldest extant house in the area. This small, gambrel-roofed, one-and-one-half-story farmhouse with a transom-lit door and a commanding central chimney exhibits the casual approach to symmetry typical for its period, especially in vernacular carpentry. It was built by a member of the family who settled and originally owned much of the land in the area. Other onetime farmhouses from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are