From 'Forty Houses': 'In 1825, Ames Burr (1793-1875), son of pioneer tanner Israel, bought this farm with his bride, Relief Eager (1804-1874), granddaughter of pioneer Nahum. It was they who built the present gambrel-roofed Federal style house.. . .They raised eleven children here.
Ames’s heirs sold the farm in 1878 to one of their number, son Heman. He, in turn, sold it to Joseph Dolby for $2,900 in 1882. Five years later, Dolby sold the place to Isaac and Fannie Thrasher of South Worthington, who retired here on the 140-acre farm until selling it to Fannie Bieke of Hatfield in 1909. That same year Fannie sold it to Edith Newton of New York City. Harry Pease, son of New York piano manufacturer, was the next owner. He sold it after World War I to Nathaniel Glidden, Wall Street broker. It was Glidden who restored the distinctive farmhouse to its present approximate appearance, and added an office and tennis court. He may also have been the one who
added the front shed dormer with its three sets of paired windows. The gable ends have fan lights, a
rarity in Worthington.']]>
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