Historic Name

The Doucette House

Address

126 Water Street

Municipality

Edinboro Borough

Tax Parcel

11014041002200

Historic District

Classification

Class 2 (Definitions of Classes)

State Key Number

90845

Historic Function

Domestic - single dwelling

Style

Italianate

Built

1861

Architect

Builder

Barn Type on property

Last Entry Update

8/2/2016

Edinboro resident, Lewis Culbtertson, built this home in 1861. M.M. McClaughry purchased the property in 1867, which was described as one of Edinboro’s finest homes in the 1867 Atlas of Erie County. The McClaughry family owned the home until 1921 when it was sold to J. Morrison Reeder. Reeder rented the property until Aime Doucette purchased it in 1933.

Doucette, an art instructor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Edith, raised their seven children in the home. Their daughter, Aimee, and her husband, Richard Rodak, owned the home until the 1970s. The home passed through the Doucette family and others until 2002 when brothers Forrest and Edward Doucette bought the property and donated it to the Edinboro Area Historical Society. The historical society, whose headquarters is at the Doucette House, uses the house as a local museum and research facility. The restoration of the property has been ongoing since the Doucette’s purchase of the home in 1933. The historical society has maintained the first level of the house as a living area with period furniture, while the upper floor is used as an office, library, and exhibit space.

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