Solomon Bowlby House

The architectural value of the building as recognized by its municipal heritage designation is its vernacular tradition with New England Colonial influences and its many original features. The one-and-a-half storey wooden building has a medium-pitched end-gable roof with a small central chimney. Pilasters and return eaves outline the gable ends.

The three-bay symmetrical façade has fairly rare double windows, a distinctive central doorway, covered with a pedimented portico and is framed with sidelights. There is a summer kitchen addition on the north side.

Solomon Bowlby, a farmer, purchased the property consisting of thirteen acres of land in 1855; his name appears as a resident in this location on the A. F. Church map of 1876 and on the Western Counties Railway plan, dated 1876. The site has passed through several owners including: Ross Bowlby, Robert Curtis and James Essensa. The property has been owned by the Mailman family from 1920 until 2009 and is a valued testament to the agricultural past of Upper Clements.