Joel Whittemore Place, 1832

The Whittemore Place is across Rte 123N from the Davis Public Library. It was built in 1832. According to the 1974 History of Stoddard, a carriage and wagon shop was remodeled into a dwelling. Joel F. Whittemore occupied this house from 1876. Over the last 30 years of the 1800s, Joel Whittemore served in numerous town positions: town clerk, selectman, tax collector, and school board member. He is known to help "break" the road in winter, repiar highway and bridges in summer, collect bounties on crows, take care of the Town Hall, and provide wood for the school house. Whittemore died in February 1908 and is buried in the "New Cemetery" on Mt Stoddard Road besides his parents and his wife, Emma.

Numerous people have occupied the house since: first a son Charles, then in 1924 Ethel Hale, followed by Winthrop Richardson, Howard Goodspeed, and Helen Bigelow.