"a picture of the Sergeant Flint house will be here, aligned to the left with the text to the right of it"

Stored in the basement of the Putnam House barn is a structure awaiting reconstruction. In 1994, a house on Gowing Lane, built about 1820, was destroyed by fire. It had attached a small addition which was spared from the flames except for its roof. Investigation of the nature of its construction, together with documentation from the Historical Commission's building inventory, indicated that this was probably the original Sergeant Flint House, built about 1680 and subsequently attached to the 1820 house. The owner gave the structure to the Historical Society as a gift and the Minit men again employed their dismantling and moving skills.

The Society has plans to rebuild the house on the Putnam House grounds.

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Updated: VLM-02/04/2001-20:00