Description:
Framed photograph of the exterior of the house built by Benjamin Graves (1735-1777) in 1753 on what was the first division of plowing field at what is now addressed as 1 Old Amherst Road, where he lived with his wife, Thankful Field Graves (1726-1794) of Sunderland whom he married in 1757, and their family. This Benjamin Graves was the son of Benjamin Graves (1689-1756) who moved from Hafield to Sunderfland in 1714. This house then was later owned by his Benjamin and Thankful's son, Benjamin Graves (1760-1832) and Abigail (1768-1843) Graves. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, shares with the Isaac Graves House (built 1715-1730; remolded circa 1750) a saltbox elevation, its two-and-a-half story height and end-gable roof with large center chimney. Second story windows are placed close to the cornice level and both stories have chiefly 12/12 sash. At the cornice level is an articulated molding, a rich Georgian detail that is echoed in the trabeated door surround composed of wide, battered pilasters supporting a fully-defined pediment in high relief. In this picture, the house is encircled with a white picket fence and a tall elm in front. Born Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966), Florence Stebbins married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) who married Mary Elizabeth MacMahon (1858-1919) of Providence, RI, in 1880; granddaughter of Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885) and Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) of Deerfield; and great granddaughter of Zebina Stebbins 1797-1879) and Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1877) of Deerfield, who was the daugher of Benjamin Graves and Thankful Field Graves.
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