STREET ADDRESS: 17 Forest Street
CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE: Yarmouth
MUNICIPALITY: Yarmouth
COUNTY: Yarmouth
YEAR BUILT: 1855
ARCHITECTURAL COMMENT:
1½ storey Gothic Revival style has a steeply pitched gable roof with a gabled wall dormer breaking the eaves over the front entrance; 2 prominent inset chimneys at ridge. The 3 bay facade is asymmetrical and has a slightly off- entrance with side- and transom-lights. Windows have double hung sashes; first storey windows have 12/8 glazing; smaller second storey window have 6/6 glazing; there is a 1 storey 5-sided bay window on the west side and round windows with quatrefoil glazing in peaks of gables. Wood construction, clad with clapboard; trim is narrow corner-boards and dog-eared labels over windows and doors.
HISTORICAL COMMENT:
Built in 1855 for Rev. John T.T. Moody and his wife, Sarah Bond (Farish), whose father, Dr. Henry Greggs Farish, had given her the lot of land as an advance on his estate. Rev. Moody was Rector of Holy Trinity Farish from 1846 until his death in 1883. The house stayed in the Farish family until 1977.
CONTEXTUAL COMMENT:
South side of Forest Street. Moved from south corner of Main and Cumberland Streets in 1962. A photo of the house at its original location shows only one window in the first storey of the present east gable end; a second window was added at some time. Well maintained and attractively landscaped.
PRESENT OWNER: James E./G.B. Lorraine Colbeck
ADDRESS: 17 Forest Street Yarmouth Nova Scotia B5A 3L1
ORIGINAL OWNER: Sarah Bond(Farish)Moody
OCCUPATION: Married woman
BUILDER: Unknown
ORIGINAL USE: Single family dwelling
PRESENT USE: Single family dwelling
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HISTORY OF BUILDING |
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| OWNER | FROM: | TO: | OCCUPATION | BOOK-PAGE |
| Sarah Bond(Farish)Moody | 07 Jan. 1855 | 20 May 1887 | Married woman | AF 395 |
| James C. Moody | 20 May 1887 | 17 Oct. 1896 | Physician | N/A |
| Yar. Building & Loan Society | 17 Oct. 1896 | 17 Aug. 1910 | Lending institution | CB 467 |
| George W.T. Farish | 17 Aug. 1910 | 18 Nov. 1948 | Physician | EM 321 |
| Susan M. Farish | 18 Nov. 1948 | 22 Mar. 1962 | Widow of Dr. G.W.T. Farish | EX 445 |
| Maude F./Edward C. Wilson | 22 Mar. 1962 | 03 May 1973 | Heirs of Susan Farish | GC 670 |
| Susan M.G. Henley George C./Barbara I. Wilson | 03 May 1973 | 12 May 1976 | Heirs of Maude Wilson | KX 537 |
| George C. /Barbara I. Wilson | 12 May 1976 | 02 July 1977 | Accountant | KK 418 |
| Roger W./Anne E. Burbine | 02 July 1977 | 31 Jan. 1979 | Artists | KY 368 |
| Ilona Kerner | 31 Jan. 1979 | 20 Apr. 1982 | Pathologist | LU 487 |
| William/Dawn M. Beare | 20 Apr. 1982 | 25 Feb. 1986 | Motel operators | NJ 493 |
| James E./G.B. Lorraine Colbeck | 25 Feb. 1986 | Present | Teacher/Nurse | 413/212 |
COMMENTS ON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Originally on the corner of Main and Cumberland Streets, the house was moved in late 1962 by Eddie Babine, after the house lot was sold to the government as the site for the Liquor Commission store. Between 1979 and late 1981, Dr. Ilona Kerner's husband, Pierre Jean Gauthier, had an art gallery in this house, and during the late 1980's it was used as a bed and breakfast/rooming house by its owners, the Colbecks, who now reside here. The Colbecks have restored the house as a single family home and also have done extensive landscaping to enhance the grounds.
SOURCES: Registry of Deeds/Probate Selected Buildings in Yarmouth, N.S., by Sharon Reilly (C.I.H.B. 1977) Sweeny Funeral Records, Ledger 22, p. 38 Yarmouth Light, Oct. 4, 1962; p. 1 Yarmouth 1821, by James C. Farish, M.D. (1892) Yarmouth genealogies, by C. Doane