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    A.L.R. Gardner House, Dennysville, Maine

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    Views of the Aaron Leeman Raymond (A.L.R.) Gardner house after it was relocated to Water Street following his death in 1891. The moved house was very close to the homes of A.L.R. Gardner's sons Fred L. and Edwin R., and provided a home for their mother Abigail and their unmarried sister Eva May Gardner.

    After the death of A.L.R. Gardner in 1891, his sons, Fred L. and Edwin R., had their mother's house, barn, carriage house, and woodshed moved by oxen from its original location, down through the fields, to a new site near their own houses and the A.L.R. Gardner Co. store on Water Street. (Edward Leighton, son of Ralph, later erected his dwelling on the original A.L.R. Gardner foundation.) A.L.R.Gardner's widow, Abbie Gardner, occupied the house until her death in 1915, succeeded by her unmarried daughter Eva. In later years the house was owned and occupied by Fred L. Gardner's daughter Edith (Gardner) Merriam. After being owned by Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert Cox, the house became the property of Harry and Gladys Hansen. Following their deaths, the house was purchased by Edith's granddaughter Louise Merriam and her husband James Oberly, who had the structure disassembled and incorporated into a new house on Lincoln Cove in Perry, Maine.

    A.L.R. Gardner's House in its second location on Water Street, Dennysville, Maine; View from Water Street, after the house was moved across the fields from the junction of King Street and Lane.
    Abigail Gardner house on left and Fred L Gardner house on right ( later owned by Louis Gardner).; Gardner houses viewed from Water Street A.L.R. Gardner House in its original location on King Street at the end of the Lane in Dennysville Maine. Aaron Lyman Raymond Gardner's portrait.; Gardner Family Album, Dennys River Historical Society, Dennysville, Maine. A.L.R. Gardner House, relocated to Water Street, Dennysville, Maine, in 1891.; Photograph by Frank Beard for the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, 1980. Abigail Eva May Gardner; Gardner Family Album, Dennys River Historical Society, Dennysville, Maine. Gardner Family Photographs; L - R: Ebenezer Gardner, brother to A. L. R. Gardner, and their sister, Lucinda (Gardner) and her husband Stephen West, whom she married in 1885. Ebenezer was a blacksmith. He died in 1889.