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F. T. Rembert Home
This information was contributed by David
Harrison a relative of F.T. Rembert.
It was built somewhere between
November 14, 1879 and May 14, 1881. A man named
Louis Meyer bought the land from Aaron Green in 1879 (Green had bought
the land from J.A.W. Cheek on February
26, 1875). When Meyer sold the property
to Rembert in 1881, the first listing of a structure on the
property occurs. (This is also consistent with the architectural style
of the house in the photo. The
shingle style did not develop until about 1878 in
Massachusetts and California.) (Winnie D. Harrison (a relative of Rembert's),
also always said that Rembert bought
the house from someone who had just built it.)
The house that now stands
at the northeast corner of Fredonia and College is the
same house that Meyer built. After visiting the famous World Columbian
Exhibition in Chicago in 1892, Rembert
had the house remodeled to its current
appearance. This exhibit was famous for the late 19th century
enthusiasm for classical details and that "white was right". Many of
the multicolored Victorian homes
- such as this one and the Northcutt house
across the street - were painted white to fit the style.
F.T. Rembert left the house in his will to his wife Kate Womack Rembert.
When F.T. Rembert died, Kate Rembert's
nephew, John Womack Harrison,Sr,
moved with his family from Marshall to live with her. When she died
on May 11, 1939, the house passed
to Harrison. The house is still owned by John W. Harrison,
Sr's surviving children.
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