Parker-Holmes Place, 1800
Historic Buildings in the Town Center
The Holmes Clothespin Factory with Lawrence Holmes in foreground. Insert of the present-day home.
This house is located along Route 123N besides the present-day Whitney Road. The house was built on land originally owned by Joel Wilson. William Parker is first associated with this house. He was a tailor by profession and still occupied the house in 1858.
Henry Holmes and his wife, Alma, occupied the house in the late 1800s. Across the road from the house was a clothespin factory, which was a Holmes family business. Around noon on February 2, 1906, the clothespin factory was destroyed by fire. Holmes ownership of the house ended in 1927 when Alma Holmes sold the house.
