The Cutter House is an historic home at 60

Gilman Road Gilman Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about from Lafayette Street (Maine State Route 88, State Route 88) in the northwest to the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge at White's Cove in the southeast. ...

in Yarmouth,

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, United States. Built in 1730, over a century before today's Yarmouth was incorporated, it is the oldest extant building in the town. It was built for Ammi Ruhamah Cutter, the first minister of the now-demolished

Meetinghouse under the Ledge The Meetinghouse under the Ledge, also known as the Old Ledge Meetinghouse,

, which stood around to the west, in the same strip of land between Gilman Road and Lafayette Street (

Maine State Route 88 State Route 88 (SR 88) is a state highway in southern Maine, United States. It runs south to north for , from U.S. Route 1 in Maine, U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Falmouth, Maine, Falmouth to US 1 in Yarmouth, Maine, Yarmouth. It run ...

), between 1729 and 1836. It stands almost directly across Gilman Road from the

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, which was established a year later.''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'',

William Hutchinson Rowe William Hutchinson Rowe (March 6, 1882''Maine Biographies'', Harrie B. Coe (before 1937), p. 135 – 1955) was an American author and historian who lived in Yarmouth, Maine. The town's elementary school, built the year he died, is now named for ...

(1937) The home, the Pioneer Cemetery and the nearby Ledge Cemetery are all that remain of this early settlement. Perez B. Loring lived at the Cutter House in the mid-19th century, after it was no longer a

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. For the second half of the 20th century, it was home to Charles and Anita Stickney, who purchased it from Henry Pennell Frank (1872–1948), who is interred in the Ledge Cemetery. The home is two storeys, , with a

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. It has five bedrooms and four bathrooms amongst its fourteen total rooms.60 Gilman Road - Vision Government Solutions
/ref> File:Pioneer Cemetery (Yarmouth, Maine) 1.jpg, The home faces the Pioneer Cemetery

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cutter House Residential buildings in Yarmouth, Maine Clergy houses in the United States Houses completed in 1730

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