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Metadata
Title |
Judge Rishworth Jordan home |
Catalog Number |
0563 |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass Plate |
Description |
Judge Rishworth Jordan house, Pool Road, Biddeford, 1889. Photo taken by Hartley Dennett in 1889, the original small panes of glass visible in windows at left. Judge Rishworth Jordan was the eldest son of Captain Samuel Jordan who built the house near Fort Hill now known as the Goldthwait House, and the oldest hosue in Biddeford. Judge Rishworth Jordan was born in that odl house in 1719 and he lived to be 89, dying in 1808. He began to build this house around 1745, on the site of an earlier garrison house that had been built around 1720. The Judge lived in this house until his death in 1808, or for nearly 60 yeras. It was occupied by his descendents for more than a century after his death. |
Date |
1889 |
Photographer |
Dennett, Hartley |
Collection |
IMAGES |
Provenance |
Gift of J. Vaughan Dennett |
Place |
Biddeford (Me.) |
Neg Loc |
Annex--Condensed Shelving--Rear |
Neg # |
563 |
Orig/copy |
Original |
Print size |
5" x 7" |
Film Size |
5 x 7 glass |
People |
Jordan Family |
Search Terms |
Biddeford Pool Road Stella Maris School University of New England Houses |
Relation |
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