STREET ADDRESS: 25 Collins Street

CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE: Yarmouth

MUNICIPALITY: Yarmouth

COUNTY: Yarmouth

YEAR BUILT: 1882-1890

ARCHITECTURAL COMMENT:

built in the Italian style, this is a two storey, wooden structure. The symmetrical three bay facade has a centered doorway. The main entrance is is an enclosed porch with windows at the sides, wooden steps and railings lead to the double doors. The porch roof is trimmed with brackets. The steeply pitched hip roof is truncated. There are two large inset chimneys. One gabled and two eyebrow dormers face out from the front. There is one, three sided bay above the portico and one on either side of the house. The windows are two over two double hung and trimmed with gabled hoods and brackets. Clad in narrow clapboard with decorative cornerboards, this house has wide eaves supported by brackets.

HISTORICAL COMMENT:

This house was built between 1882 and 1890 by John Murphy, a shipowner who also had built what is now 11 Second Street. This house was apparently built for John Murphy's son Charles, who is shown residing here on the 1890 and 1895 directories.

At the time these two houses were built, father and son together were engaged in the shipbuilding industry and owned some of the largest vessels built in the county.

In 1895 John Murphy sold the house to Charles who lived here until his death in 1907 at the age of 52. His widow, Mary was the daughter of Isaac Hatfield of Tusket. She conveyed the house the following year to Captain Lovitt W.Hines.

Captain Lovitt Wilson Hines was born in Pubnico the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hines. While still a young man the family moved to Argyle. It was from here that he went to sea. He began fishing out of Boston and Gloucester and eventually owned five large fishing boats. He was skipper in three of these.

He retired from the fishing business in 1908 when he bought this house and moved to Yarmouth.

CONTEXTUAL COMMENT:

Surrounded by narrow lawns and hedges, the front faces an elementary school. The home has been kept in good condition and its well suited to the neighbourhood.

PRESENT OWNER: Donald & Gerald Pottier and Gordon Wood

ADDRESS: P.O. Box 68 Tusket Yarmouth County, B0W 3M0

ORIGINAL OWNER: John Murphy

OCCUPATION: Shipowner

BUILDER: Unknown

ORIGINAL USE: Home

PRESENT USE: Five Apartments.

SOURCES: The Yarmouth Times (July 26, 1907) Registry of Deeds (Yarmouth) Yarmouth Directories (1890)(1895)(1889) BEV Map (Currie Publisher)