Wayland Center, possibly
Name/Title
Wayland Center, possiblyEntry/Object ID
ph-50-433-nDescription
Pousland house -- side view from Boston Post Road. Trinitarian Congregational Church bell town is seen behind it. Captain Edward Pousland was a sea captain who came to Wayland in about 1859. He employed a ‘widow’s walk’ a common feature of houses by the sea where folklore holds that the wives of ships’ captains looked out for the return of their husbands. Edward, his wife Hannah W. (Langmaid) Pousland (1824-1899) and their son Frank W. Pousland lived in this house at least until Edward’s death in 1895 and were listed here in the 1893 street directories. In about 1900 this house was sold to Willard A. Bullard. It was next sold in 1908 to Jonathan Maynard Parmenter purchased from Bullard this property along with other contiguous land along the south side of Cochituate Road and gave the house to the First Parish Church for a parsonage. his house was given to the First Parish in memory of Jonathan’s brother, Henry Dana Parmenter with whom he had farmed. In 1955 the church converted the parsonage to office and parish house, which is about when the one-story rear ell was constructed. This arrangement continued until 1984 when the First Parish sold the house back into private ownership. The Congregational Church bell tower on Cochituate Road: On doctrinal grounds, members of the First Parish Unitarian church splintered off to form the Congregational Parish in 1828. Their church--which became the second religious structure in Wayland --was erected in 1835 and burned in 1920. In 1928 a local resident and well-known restoration architect, Edwin Goodell, Jr. designed a new building.Collection
W. H. Folsom Shoebox CollectionCataloged By
Gardner-Westcott, KayCategory
Folsom Negatives