Fitts Cottage
32 Castle Street

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.