75 South Main Street

The original sections of this Greek Revival style house probably date from 1855 when tax records listed G. B. Bartlett as the owner. Lee Bingham, manufacturer of harnesses and farm implements, and owner of a woolen mill and foundry, apparently resided here from 1862 to 1878. The 1872 map of the Village has the footprint of a building on this site. Typical features of the Greek Revival style are the low pitched one and 1/2 story section with a single story wing to the north, and the porch extending along the street facing facade. While the street facade probably appears much as it did originally, the house has long been used as a two family residence resulting in changes to the interior and exterior. However, the two front doors may have been original and not an accommodation to the the two-family use since it was not unusual in an L-shaped Greek Revival to have one door for the entrance to the "Sunday" parlor and another door for the family entrance. For that matter it was not unusual in any house of that time to have two such entrances.