Owners:
1892: G. Eastman
1858: G. Eastman
1985: David & Dora Rapalyea
Location: 70 Franklin Road
Tax Map Reference: 244-60
Type: Colonial Farm House Built: c.1757 by Joseph Bean, Esq, and his father, Joseph Bean
Dearborn’s “History of Salisbury, NH”, printed in 1890, states Esquire Joseph Bean built this house and gave it to his son, Amos, at the time of Amos’s marriage, on December 19, 1799. He also gave his daughter, Betsey, the last house on Rabbit Road when she married Durrell Elliott of Boscawen. That house has been dismantled and rebuilt in Canterbury, NH.
Trying to establish the date of this house, or any eighteenth-century house, is problematic. Joseph Bean Esq built three houses in Salisbury, and to make things more difficult to research, the firstborn of each Joseph Bean was named Joseph for five consecutive generations. In the previous printing of this book, “Historical Salisbury Houses,” it was stated that the Heath house was built in 1745, on Calef Hill, removed and relocated to the present site on Old Turnpike Road. This information was obtained from the History of Salisbury, page 466. However, this is not correct, as the Dendrology Report on the
Heath House shows the timbers were felled during the winters of 1788/9 and 1792/3. A Dendrology. The report is an analysis of the age of the wooden timbers. A summary of this report is reprinted on the
next page. The house that was relocated from Calef Hill was placed on the south side of South Road, now Franklin Road, NH Route 127, and the west side of College Road, closed and discontinued; however, it is still used as a driveway, see Salisbury Town Report 1947. At the time of the rebuilding of this house, a large addition was added on the west side, changing the house from a two-thirds colonial to a full colonial. Calef Hill is located behind the Blackwater Veterinarians’ office on Old.
Turnpike Road.
This house still has many of its original features; one bedroom has its original wall stenciling. There are five fireplaces, three on the first floor and two on the second floor, one of which does not work. All the windows are nine-over-six except the two in the original kitchen, which are twelve-over-nine. All the windows have been replaced; however, the eighteenth-century windows, many having the
original glass, were retained, with room descriptions on each, and are stored in the attic. Wide pine floors remain in six of the eight rooms. In the keeping room, original Kitchen, all the wainscoting boards are 34” in width, and one board in the subfloor of this room is 40” wide. There are corner posts on the first floor. The first tall clock (grandfather clock) in Salisbury stood in this house. Joseph Bean, Esquire, was elected to the first Board of Selectmen of the newly incorporated Town of Salisbury and served for one year.
Other Salisbury houses were built by Joseph Bean. “Historic Salisbury Houses” by Paul S. Shaw, M.D., printed in 1995, Revised 2003, 2006, 2019, Page 184. “Salisbury Lost” by Paul S. Shaw, M.D., reprinted in 1985, revised in 2003, Page 87.
Owners:
c 1757 Esquire Joseph Bean
1799 Amos Bean
1820 James Paige
1838 Gilbert Eastman
1896 Martha, Joel Eastman, Abbie Eastman Burns
1910 Belle Eastman Lorden
1920 Marshall Richardson
1928 Martha Richardson
1932 Joseph Miskiel,
1946 Douglas and Mary Campbell
1985 David and Dora Rapalyea
Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory
Report 2017/07
The Tree-Ring Dating of the
Bean House, Salisbury,
New Hampshire
Michael J. Worthington and Jane I. Seiter
Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory
25 East Montgomery Street, Baltimore, MD 21230
410-929-152
October 2017
Bean House, Salisbury, New Hampshire (43.376372, -71.708064)
Main House Felling Dates: Winter 1788/9, Summer 1789, Summer 1792, Winter 1792/3
Site Master 1666-1782 (Oak) BNNHx1 (t=5.64 VTOAK; 5.68 HUTCH; 5.17 PROSP)
The Bean House is a large, two-story timber-framed house located in Salisbury, New Hampshire.
The house is two rooms wide and two rooms deep, with a center chimney stack between the front two rooms and a kitchen fireplace in the back of the chimney stack.
Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was built from stockpiled timbers felled
between the winter of 1788/9 and the winter of 1792/3, suggesting that the building was constructed. In the winter of 1792/3 or shortly thereafter.
Date Sampled: May 11, 2017
Owner and commissioner: Roger Heath
Street address: 155 Old Turnpike Road, Salisbury, NH 03268