36 Summit Street

1906 The Lawrence heirs sold Lot No. 59 in the Lawrence Estates to Hattie Butman on February 27, 1906 (MLR 3216/395). This is the lot on which No. 36 Summit Street was built. The original Lot No. 59 extended for about 72 feet along Summit Street and 84 feet south from Summit Street along it's eastern side. At this time, Hattie and her husband, Fred L. Butman, were living on Hammond Street, and Fred's occupation was listed as real estate.

Less than five months later, on June 11, 1906, the Butmans sold the eastern part of Lot No. 59 to David Anderson, who worked for the watch company (MLR 3224/552). The lot then measured only about 62 feet along Summit Street. The Butmans had combined the other 10 feet with the lot to the west, which they also owned at this time. The first listing for 36 Summit Street in the annual listing of voters was in 1907, for a Walter Beamish, who was a watchmaker and had lived elsewhere in 1906. David Anderson was first listed as living there in 1910. Therefore, the house at No. 36 Summit Street was probably built for Fred and Hattie Butman in 1906, and the first person to live there was a renter named Walter Beamish. The Anderson family lived in the house from 1910 until 1959.

It is interesting to note that the Butmans also developed and sold the houses at No. 36 and No. 40 Summit Street around this same time, and the architecture of all three houses is very similar. The Butmans were not architects or builders, and the actual builder of the houses is unknown.

1913 The Lawrence heirs sold Lot No. 61 in the Lawrence Estates to David Anderson in 1913 (MLR 3804/563). This was the second lot south on the eastern side of Irving Street, on which 16 Irving Street was later built, and abutted Anderson's house lot at 36 Summit Street at the rear.

1914 In 1914, Anderson sold the western portion of Lot No. 61, the part adjacent to Irving Street to Charles S. Glancy (MLR 3889/493). This left Anderson with the current lot for 36 Summit Street measuring about 62 feet along Summit Street and about 144 feet south from Summit Street along its eastern side.

1959 David Anderson sold the house at 36 Summit Street to Paul R. and Ellen K. Trombley (MLR 9314/507) in 1959. Paul Trombley worked for the Post Office as a letter carrier for 43 years. In 1978, the Trombley's daughter and son-in-law, Lyn and Steven Sturtevant, bought 16 Irving Street, and the two lots were once again owned by members of the same family, as they had been in 1913. Paul Trombley died in 2016, and the house passed out of the Trombley family in 2017.