STREET ADDRESS: 109 Brunswick St.
CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE:Yarmouth
MUNICIPALITY:Yarmouth
COUNTY:Yarmouth
YEAR BUILT: 1873
ARCHITECTURAL COMMENT:
Queen Anne Revival - steeply pitched hip roof with cross hip roof. Squared corner tower with windows 2 x 2 and finial on tower. Floor window of tower has band of stained class. Two stories with scalloped shingle band at top of first storey. Wood construction. Off center doorway with open porch and fancy railings. Three bay facade. Some variable windows and shed dormers. Back door has open porch and a sunporch adjoining. One wide chimney on hip roof. Sits on granite base with finished stone cellar. Sloping lug sills on most windows. Plain narrow projecting eaves with gutters attached.
HISTORICAL COMMENT:
Capt. Bowman Corning was the son of Samuel 2nd and Mary Brown Corning. He was one of the first of the Yarmouth Steam Navigation Company and commanded the steamer "Eastern State" between Nova Scotia and Boston. Prominent in many businesses he also was interested in our school system being upgraded. He was also a director of the Yarmouth Gas Works and the Yarmouth Duck'& Yarn Co. in 1883. His son-in-law Samuel A. Crowell later lived here and was also a highly respected citizen. When George and Mabel Killam acquired it in 1920 the landscaping and gardens were well looked after making it a showplace among heritage homes.
CONTEXTUAL COMMENT:
This house was built on the cellar when the original house built in 1866 was moved down the street. Its style was one of the first Queen Anne revival built in the 1870's in Yarmouth. It's built on landscaped lawns and gardens with a precision low stone wall and gate post on the corner sides of the lot. Compatible to the neighborhood. School across the street.
PRESENT OWNER: Dawnmarie Skjelmose
ADDRESS: 109 Brunswick St., Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
ORIGINAL OWNER: Capt. Bowman Corning
OCCUPATION: Merchant & Master Mariner
BUILDER: Unknown
ORIGINAL USE: Home
PRESENT USE: Home
| HISTORY OF BUILDING | ||||
| OWNER | FROM: | TO: | OCCUPATION | BOOK PG |
| Bowman Corning | April 21, 1873 | May 17, 1877 | Merchant | AV-273 |
| Mary Edna Crowell | Oct. 16, 1890 | Mar. 14, 1896 | Wife | BV-34 |
| Samuel A. Crowell | Mar. 14, 1896 | April 24, 1920 | Merchant | CB-10 |
| George Killam | April 24, 1920 | Feb. 10, 1965 | Merchant | DN-564 |
| Robert Killam Katherine McLaughlin | Feb. 10, 1965 | April 26, 1976 | Son Daughter | will #3075 |
| Charles McNeil | April 26, 1976 | Aug. 6, 1981 | Medical Doctor | KG-207 |
| Stanley Martin | Aug. 6, 1981 | Jan. 18, 1988 | Motel Operator | NB-314 |
| Leon Hubley | Jan. 18, 1988 | Oct. 25, 1990 | Real Estate Dealer | 438-582 |
| J. William/Dawnmarie Skjelmose | Oct. 25, 1990 | Dec. 2, 1993 | N/A | 479/860 |
| Dawnmarie Skjelmose | Dec. 2, 1993 | Present | Innkeeper | 517/308 |
COMMENTS ON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
George Killam & Mabel Windsor had Robert B. Killam and Katharine Killam McLaughlin. On the death of Mabel Killam in 1965 they received the house , from her estate and later Dr. Charles (Chuck) McNeil now a member of the Nova Scotia Legislature lived here. Recently it has become a boarding house.
SOURCES: Yarmouth Herald has notice of the original house being moved to 95 Brunswick St. by Bowman-Corning so as to build a new house. Matching barn remained on property.