Calvin Rogers House
Calvin Rogers apparently occupied his father's house at the edge of the Canal until his mother's death in 1856; the farmstead went eastward through to High Street. He then sold the old house to the Faulkners (he himself had married Ann Faulkner), a middle section to Thomas Talbot (on which the Governor built his own mansion later), and reserved 11 acres on the east end for himself. He built this house on the northeast corner, on Mount Pleasant Street, and was taxed on it as his homestead in 1860.
By 1858, Calvin's eldest daughter, first wife of Thomas Talbot, was dead; his youngest daughter had died unmarried; and the two middle daughters had not yet (a) married Joseph Gould, who had just arrived to manage the Talbot Chemical Works, or (b) gone on from successful school teaching to become Principal of the Clarke Institution for the Deaf. The two daughters presumably moved with him. It Was the first house, and an influential, one, in the residential development on Mount Pleasant Street.