Wheeler Lane House

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189 Central Avenue

This Colonial home, originally designed with four rooms upstairs, four rooms down, and symmetrical chimneys, was built circa 1790 by James Remick. In 1827, it was the home of the Hon. John Wheeler (1770- 1840), president of the Strafford Bank. Wheeler’s widow Elizabeth sold the house about 1850 to Edmund J. Lane (1802- 1884), books and stationery dealer and deacon of the First Parish Church. Lane had first married Elizabeth Barker (1798- 1838) and had a son, Edmund, then married Marthat J. G. Barker (1812-1870) and had four more children. Lane moved the house several feet and had it thoroughly repaired. He lived her until his death and his son Edmund B. (1837-1924) and his daughter Anna (1870-1932) owned the house thereafter. The house now contains three apartments.
From the 1987 Heritage Walking Tour Booklet