Gilman Manse

{{short description|Historic house in Maine, United States}}

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| location = Yarmouth, Maine, U.S.

| address = 463 Lafayette Street

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The Gilman Manse is an historic home at 463 Lafayette Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1771, making it one of the oldest extant buildings in the town, it was originally the home of Tristram Gilman, the fourth minister of the now-demolished Meetinghouse under the Ledge, which stood around {{Convert|900|feet|m}} to the northeast between 1729 and 1836.[https://www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/series1/NorthYarmouthMEFirst "North Yarmouth, Maine. First Church"] – Congregational Library & Archives It succeeded the Cutter House, at 60 Gilman Road, as the parsonage for the church.{{Cite book |title=American Seedsman, Volume 3 |publisher=American Seedsman |year=1921 |pages=46}}

In 1905, John Calvin Stevens was hired to undertake a renovation of the property.[https://yarmouth.me.us/vertical/sites/%7B27541806-6670-456D-9204-5443DC558F94%7D/uploads/Complete_Matrix_USE.xlsx.pdf Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220192413/https://yarmouth.me.us/vertical/sites/%7B27541806-6670-456D-9204-5443DC558F94%7D/uploads/Complete_Matrix_USE.xlsx.pdf |date=2022-12-20 }} - Yarmouth's town website)

It was the home of Arthur E. Marks (1853–1917) in 1911,{{Cite book |title=House Beautiful, Volumes 31-32 |publisher=Hearst Corporation |year=1911 |pages=VI}} and of Merrill and Grace Haskell (1892–1971) from 1928.[https://yarmouth.me.us/vertical/sites/%7B27541806-6670-456D-9204-5443DC558F94%7D/uploads/Nicolas_Application_and_parking_map_6-19-19.pdf Town of Yarmouth: Special Exception Appeal Application, 6/11/19]{{Cite book |title=Social Register, Boston, 18 |publisher=Social Register Association |year=1932 |pages=100}}{{Cite news |date=1971-09-22 |title=Obituary for HASKELL (Aged 78) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brattleboro-reformer-obituary-for-h/80582024/ |access-date=2024-06-04 |work=The Brattleboro Reformer |pages=13}}

File:Interior of the Gilman Manse.png|One of the home's fireplaces is in view in this circa-1912 photograph