Results for subject term " Pettijohn Homes - #15 Beston Street, moved from Tillson court and #44 Beston Street <br />
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In the 1950 Amherst Directory, Erwin W. and his wife Helen A. Pettyjohn were living with Helen’s mother, Bessie Pettijohn Bias, at 44 Beston and Erwin is listed as proprietor of General Roofing Co. at 44 Beston. The southerly section of the property (now 15 Beston) had no house until July 1967, when Erwin Pettyjohn moved a house built in 1909, very much in the New England vernacular farmhouse style Beston Street properties (except that the front door and stairwell were to the right, not the left of the house). The house that was by 1967 moved to Beston St had been bought by the Reed family in 1940, after years of rental. That house, referred to as house #3 in the Tax Valuations, first appears in 1910 at Tillson Court so was likely built during 1909. George Reed, who had rented and then bought the house in question, managed the Amherst Laundry that closed. It was a good time to sell the house to Erwin Pettyjohn and let him move the house from 16 Tillson Court to 15 Beston Street. The photograph showing the house-moving is in Jones Library Special Collections and appears below. Paul Britt, Sr., whose family lived at 35 McClellan (he now lives at 43 McClellan), remembers the Pettyjohns moving the house across their Britt backyard over the objections of Britt’s mother, to save costs of dismantling electric wires at the corner of McClellan and Beston. The Pettyjohns sold 15 Beston to John F. Edwards in 1987.<br />
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