27 Liberty St., Martin L. Kern House

The Martin L. Kern House at 27 Liberty St., was built in 1845. The home is a front gabled Greek Revival style with clapboard siding and a recessed front door with sidelights. Though the windows are now 2/2 they were likely changed at the turn of the century from 6 over 6 sash. The home has an ell extension to the rear.

Martin L. Kern was born in 1807 and died in 1862 at age 54. He was a glassblower for the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company. He married Cyrene E. Hamblin b. 1829, died 1851. With Cyrene, they had 4 children, Ainsworth, Cyrene, Delia and Martha Ann and Martin Luther.

He remarried Tabitha P. Hamblin in 1852 and together they had 3 more children, Luella, Herbert and Harriet.