Fillmore House, Historical residence in East Aurora, New York, United States.
Fillmore House is a wood-frame house in East Aurora, New York, built in the early 19th century with a clapboard exterior and a gabled roof. A front porch supported by cylindrical columns marks the entrance and gives the building its distinctive street-facing appearance.
The house was built in 1826, when its first occupant was beginning a law career in East Aurora. It was relocated twice over the following century, ending up at its current site in the 1930s.
The house displays furnishings and household items from the early 1800s that show how a modest lawyer's home was arranged at that time. Visitors can walk through personal rooms set up as they would have looked during the years the original owner lived there.
The house is open from spring through fall, and tours generally need to be booked in advance. Several other historical buildings in the area can be combined into the same visit.
The artist who moved the house to its current location in the 1930s went on to use it as a personal studio. This means the same building served as a home to a future president and later as a workspace for a 20th-century artist.
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