This Queen Anne Style with a three story turret is located on the hill area of Liberty Street. It was built in the 1870s and occupied Arnold A. and Rachel Smith Plumer . Mr. Plumer was Vice President of the First National Bank. After the death of Mr. and Mrs. Plumer, James Donald McCalmont, a Franklin lawyer, and his wife, Eleuthera DuPont Smith resided here. Eleuthera, a niece of Mrs. Rachel Plumer, was raised in this home after the death of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. McCalmont first lived in the John McCalmont home that was near the Plumer home on Liberty Street.
coordinated, transcribed, pictures by Penny Haylett-Minnick
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