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2007- Smith-Norris House

$10.00

This brick Italianate style home with distinctive tower at 216 Arbor Avenue was built around 1869. Reverend Isaac Smith, a Congregational minister who was accused of drowning his wife, was brought to trial for murder and acquitted. Smith received a life insurance payment of $6,000, which most likely financed the house construction. He lived in the house but one year. Charles E. Norris, local undertaker, and his family later bought the home and members of the family occupied it for almost 40 years.

This brick Italianate style home with distinctive tower at 216 Arbor Avenue was built around 1869. Reverend Isaac Smith, a Congregational minister who was accused of drowning his wife, was brought to trial for murder and acquitted. Smith received a life insurance payment of $6,000, which most likely financed the house construction. He lived in the house but one year. Charles E. Norris, local undertaker, and his family later bought the home and members of the family occupied it for almost 40 years.