Flynn-Cutler-Robichaud House

Flynn-Cutler-Robichaud House is valued for its close association with Edmund Power Flynn, a Member of the Provincial Legislative Assembly and Member of Parliament. Flynn was a prominent fish merchant and had the house built in the 1860’s. The house is one of the very few pre-1914 buildings of architectural merit left in Arichat, a community that was first permanently settled in the first half of the eighteenth century. Flynn was also the first coroner for Richmond County. In 1888 he married and sold the house, and died in 1910, leaving a large family.

Flynn-Cutler-Robichaud House is also valued for its association with the Cutler family, who for most of the twentieth century used the house as a residence, hotel and telephone exchange. D’Auvergne Cutler first operated a livery stable and then turned the house into an inn, known as the Commercial House. The livery stable was discontinued in the early 1930’s; however the hotel remained in operation until the late 1950’s. From the house, his wife Elizabeth and then their daughter Laura operated the town’s telephone exchange beginning in 1911. The exchange remained in operation until 1971 when a dial system was introduced in Arichat.