Ivory Perry Homestead

The Ivory Perry Homestead stands in a rural setting of eastern Dublin, at the northeast corner of Valley and Dooe roads. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled slate roof and clapboarded exterior. It has two interior brick chimneys, and a symmetrical five-bay facade. The main entry is flanked by pilasters and topped by a heavy cornice; it is not original to the house, but was recovered from another early 19th-century house that was demolished. The interior's original 18th-century features include a large kitchen fireplace. A single-story ell, of late 18th or early 19th-century construction, extends to the rear.^[2]

The oldest portion of this dates to c. 1767, when Ivory Perry, one of Dublin's first proprietors, built a 1+1⁄2-story Cape-style farmhouse. In c. 1820 his son enlarged the building, adding the second story and adding modest Federal styling. The building's exterior was replaced in the early 1980s in a historically sensitive manner. Ivory Perry is also credited with building a nearby schoolhouse and conducting school in this house for several years. In the early 20th century, this house was bought by Jeffrey Richardson Brackett, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, as a summer residence. A tenant during the 1960s was sculptor Blanche Dombek.^[2]

• John Perry Homestead
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cheshire County, New Hampshire