Name/Title
Kellogg/Boutwell House Being Moved, 1950Entry/Object ID
2023.3.5Description
Photograph of the Kellogg/Boutwell House, formerly at 156 Main Street, Montpelier, Vermont, being moved to 14 Franklin Street in 1950.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Copy photographSubject
Montpelier (Vt.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.Subject Person or Organization
Boutwell, James M., 1855-1929, Kellogg, Roger, d. 1848, Neill, Bernard, Russell, George, Boutwell, Genevieve Rumsey, 1857-1943Subject Place
City
Montpelier, Washington County, VermontStreet
Main Street (Montpelier, Vt.)Context
Built circa 1835 for Roger Hubbard, an early settler of Montpelier village, the house features four wooden Tuscan columns supporting a projecting pediment. Ownership of the house passed to Roger’s son Erastus in 1850, and to Erastus’s son John in 1890. After John Hubbard, donor of the park and library that carry the family name, died in 1899, the house was sold to James M. Boutwell, a wealthy granite quarry owner. Boutwell left the house to his wife, who sold it to the Free and Accepted Masons in 1945. Five years later, the Masons sold the structure but not the land to Bernard Neill. ("A Second Walk Through Montpelier" (1976) says that the Masons paid Bernard Neill to move it to a lot on Franklin Street, but that is disputed by family members). It took the contractor George Russell a month to move the structure to its current location at 14 Franklin Street. Bernard and Laura Neill sold the house to Lewis and Evelyn Maudean Neill on August 25, 1959 (Montpelier deeds, book 92, page 161-162).Collection
Vermont Historical Society Photograph CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2023.3Source or Donor
Neill, MaudeanAcquisition Method
Gift