PRESERVATION
also threw an annual
Halloween party, complete
with a haunted house in
the attic.
When Iowa-born Dr. Clyde
Phillips Platts and his wife,
Clara, bought the land from
the Florida Canning
Company on April 8, 1896,
and built their house, their
kitchen was in a separate
building on the east side —
made that way so that if it
caught on fire it could be
hauled away by a team of
horses, Brown said.
“There was a verandah
that wrapped around the
house, and I don’t know who
took it down, maybe the
church,” Brown said. “But
when Bean was a little boy he
used to play with Dr. Van
Landingham’s son. Dr. Van
Landingham lived in the
house after Dr. Platts died.
And you had to go outdoors
to go to the kitchen. Bean
turned it into his framing
room when he lived there.
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The Vachon family gave Main Street this triangular stained glass window. When the walls were taken out, the
junction of the steep roof added by the church with the original house wall presented the perfect place for the
window which will now form part of the wall of an upstairs room.
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