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    Edwin Gardner House, Dennysville, Maine

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    Views of the Edwin Gardner House, Water Street, Dennysville, Maine. In 1861 the house was the residence of Daniel K. Hobart, who operated a drug store about 100 feet downstream on the Dennys River. In 1881 the house was occupied by W.J. Ennis, and later became the home of Edwin "Ned" Gardner.

    After their father's death in 1891, Edwin "Ned" R. Gardner and his brother, Fred, moved their mother's residence from its original location on King Street, across the fields to the driveway across from his brother, Fred, and just above his own house, on Water Street. Prior to Ned Gardner's purchase of the property in 1884, it had been occupied by Charles Eastman, Daniel K. Hobart, and William J. Ennis. After the death of Edwin Gardner in 1918, and his wife, Ada (Allan) in 1924, the family home was occupied by their bachelor son, Maxwell Gardner, until he died in 1966. In 1972, the property was sold to Harold and Joanne Scott for whom it was a summer residence. It has subsequently been transformed into a home bakery.

    Edwin Gardner House on Water Street, Dennysville, Maine; Photograph by Frank Beard for the Maine Historic Preservation Commission in 1980.
    Edwin Ned Gardner House, back barn and kitchen garden. Shops and Stores and houses along the Dennys River in 1861; The D.K. Hobart house is located downstream and across the road from D.K. Hobart's drugstore in the 1861 map of Dennysville Village from the Lee and Marsh Atlas of Washington County, Maine. Houses and shops along the Dennys River in the Colby Atlas of 1881; The Drug Store on the bank of the river belonging to D.K. Hobart in 1861 is listed here as belonging to George Kilby, who married Daniel Hobart's niece. His house, later belonging to Edwin Houses and shops of Water Street, Dennysville Maine c. 1911; Edwin Gardner's House is located beyond the Benjamin Kilby house, with washing on the line, in this historic photograph taken around 1911 looking towards Meetinghouse Hill. The image is reproduced from Rebecca W. Hobart's Edwin Edwin