The home featured for this page is the Porter Home that was on Porter Road

Go to the Walking Tour Site #1-The Methodist Church

At the bottom you will see photos, a map and history of some of the earliest homes built in town on North Jefferson Street (then it was named Fitch Street) 379 N. Jefferson still stands in 2025, the original home of Dr. GH Evans, then the Kerr family. It appears to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.

Historic Homes by Napoli in 2003 and 2006

Click the above to see the survey of all downtown homes that were possibly eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, on the Dixon Library Archives Site. Photos for this survey were taken by one of our original Proprietors, the late Hayward S. Melville

MORE HOME INFO AND PHOTOS TO COME SOON!

East Mayes Street Homes

Then and now

The Henry Peterson and Mary Frances Beuck Peterson Home SE Corner of E Mayes and 3rd Street

The Dr. Lester Hall & Matilda Petersen Hall home

NE Corner of E Mayes and 3rd

Rowland Moss & Amelia Petersen Moss home

SW Corner of E Mayes and 3rd

Their children lived on the opposite corners from them...

............You can see the spire of the original Catholic Church behind their garage in the background (it was on S 2nd Street)