Name/Title
Perley Jones HouseEntry/Object ID
2023.1.1362Description
Perley Jones house. Also known as the Hyde Townsend Home. Looking East. North Common is on the right. The photo was taken around 1890.
The large white house on the corner, once owned by Caroline Hyde, was located on the site of our present Library/Town Hall which was dedicated October 25, 1894. The house was moved easterly for a dwelling and is now the Boardway & Cilley Funeral Home.
The small white building behind the first house was Foster Grow's jewelry shop. In this building Charles Densmore learned the jewelry trade and later has his store, now torn down, where Arnold Preston's building is on South Main St., just north of present Chelsea Veterinary Building.
Next building to the east was for many years the IGA general store, and beyond that the Dana Mansion, and the Beckwith-Hatch House and parsonage.