Joseph Durfee (1800-1847)
of 456 Rock Street, Fall River, Massachusetts
He commissioned architect Russell Warren to build his new home (pictured) in 1843 at Fall River, where his uncle and namesake, Col. Joseph Durfee, had built the town's first cotton mill. Four years after the house was built, he died, and it passed to his daughter and granddaughter before his great-granddaughter moved out in 1951. Still standing, the house remains the most imposing estate of the Classical style in the Highlands with the carriage house and most of the original land intact.
