Name/Title
Wells-Shober Cottage | Roosevelt Campobello International Park | Campobello, New BrunswickDescription
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.119
WELLS-SHOBER COTTAGE
Willard T. Sears, of Boston, designed the Wells-Shober Cottage for American lawyer Samuel Wells, once president of the Campobello Company. This building was finished in 1884, at about the same time as the building of the three Campobello hotels for which Sears drew the plans. All four buildings were Queen Anne Revival designs. With a steep hip roof, dotted with gables and dormers, this two-and-a-half story cottage was built with railings, both inside and on the facade. The roof was a bell-cast design with two chimneys. Walls of this wooden frame building are protected by clapboards, first painted brown (with white trim), but since painted all white by the Park Commission. When the living room, with fireplace, was given an addition encircling that room, the outside veranda had to be rebuilt as well. Besides dining room and kitchen, on the first floor, there are not only four second floor bathrooms but two railed verandas, while three bedrooms, each with a bath, occupy the third floor. The Park Commission remodeled the Well-:Shober Cottage for use as a guest house. This cottage is across the street (Route 774 from Lubec to Welshpool, N.B.) from the Hubbard Cottage, which is seven years younger. The Wells family sold their cottage to Mary Norris Cochrane in 1912, and her daughter Edith Shober (Mrs. Rex) inherited it in 1918. The Park Commission acquired the Wells-Shober Cottage in 1965, and it was the first cottage to be redecorated and used for Commission meetings. NHSD, JCB
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The Wells – Shober Cottage is the oldest cottage the Roosevelt Campobello International Park has in it possession, originally constructed in 1884 for Samuel Wells, one of the founding members of the Campobello Company before 1900. Rex Shober a lawyer from Philadelphia whose wife Edith was Samuel Wells daughter, later acquired the cottage. The cottage sold in 1955 to Lydie Brown who operated it as a boarding house and gift shop until 1965 when it was purchased by the Roosevelt Campobello International Park.