Fitts Cottage
32 Castle Street
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The Fitts Cottage was built in 1874 and is a second empire cottage style house with a crested tower and an oriel window with a decorative cast-iron railing. Asphalt siding has been added and the cornice removed. Fitts, a machinist and inventor, occupied the house for sixteen years.
It is now privately owned by a local architect who plans to restore the house despite its extensive damage and deterioration over the past years. The cottage sits near the crest of a hill on which the Oread Institute was located. Founded in 1849 by Eli Thayer, the Oread Institute was the oldest institution in the country educating women. |
