Fleet/Jarvis Barn

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Capt. Thomas Fleet, an English sea captain, settled the area known as Fleet’s Cove in 1653. His descendants married into the Jarvis family, another early Huntington family and continued to live in that part of the town throughout the next two centuries. One of the early houses associated with the Fleet/Jarvis families still stands on Cove Road, a short distance from this building which was constructed in the late 18th century as a barn for that property. The current homeowners have painstakingly restored this converted barn into the comfortable and very livable house you see today. The barn was built into a hill which would have allowed ground access at two levels. The stone wall, built into the bank is still visible from the inside at the bottom of the stairs. The roof rafters and other structural beams have been left exposed illustrating a second use for the building

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