The Sturgeon House is a

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house dating from around 1838 in Fairview, Erie County, in the

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. It was listed on the

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in 1980. The Sturgeon House is operated as

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by the Fairview Area Historical Society.

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The Sturgeon House is located at the intersection of Water Street and Avonia Road (

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). The house is a rare example of a

house in

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, as well as a house with a recessed side

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.Hetz, § 7. The house is constructed of "stone foundation walls and topped with heavy timber sills which are notched to receive log form beams." The roof of the house is slanted at an angle of 30 degrees. The front door is framed by a

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and Federal-style

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and

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History

Jeremiah and William Sturgeon were the earliest settlers of what is now Fairview Township, who acquired land from the Pennsylvania Population Company in 1797.Hetz, § 8. The Sturgeons operated "

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stops and taverns" in the area for travelers after the first road was cut from Erie to

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in 1805. They founded the community of Sturgeonville, which eventually became Fairview. The house was built around 1838 by Samuel C. Sturgeon and is one of several built by the Sturgeons. The southern addition of the house was possibly constructed in the early 1850s. The Sturgeon House was sold to the Fairview Area Historical Society in 1979 by a descendant of the Jeremiah Sturgeon. The house was listed on the

on December 10, 1980.

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