Nevins Site, 153 S. Merrimack Rd. Hollis, NH August 23, 2000 Honi Glover Oral Interview By Tanya Krajcik

Honi's Grandfather, Norman E. Howe, purchased house and 265 acre property around 1901. He may have bought the property through an auction after Jackson Wheeier (the previous owner) died in 1898. Honi has a Hollis Times newspaper clipping dated May 10th 1901 advertising the 265‑acre farm up for auction on May 18th 1901.

The newspaper described the property as a fruit and milk farm !ocated in a "wealthy part of town" with pine and chestnut trees, running spring water and a well. The house was a two‑story colonial with wood shingles and an attached one-story el. It had 13 rooms, 2 pantries and closets. The house never had electricity although the barn had a Delco System. A breezeway extended from the el to the barn. The house burned down in the 1920's. Honi thinks a fire was deliberately started in the fireplace to clean it out but the fire was never extinguished properly.

The barn was described as a "modern post and beam barn", 80'X40', with a dry cellar, a 36' silo located inside, and southern exposure. A hen house was attached to the southeast side of the barn as well as a workshop. Attached to the north side was a milk house and then an ice house running off of the milk house. The barn burned on Holloween night, 1983.

North of the house was a detached carriage house (24'X40') which was also used for storage and a granary. This structure was dismantled after the fires and used to build a house now located on Pepperell Road.

Norman Howe built a blacksmith shop located southwest of the house across S. Merrimack Road. This was the only blacksmith shop in the area that had an ox sling.

Honi's mother, Marion Howe, was born in the house in 1903 and her sister was aiso born there in the 1920's. Honi was born after the house burned and grew up on Glover Lane. She did, however, work in the barn which was stiil in operation after the house burned.

Honi had no information about the property prior to her grandfather's ownership.