Name/Title
Steeple Clock, c.1870s | Wells-Shober Cottage | Campobello, New BrunswickDescription
Classification: Furniture
Circa: 1870
Accession Number: 2237
Description:
Steeple Clock, c.1870s. Waterbury Clock Company, Waterbury, Connecticut. Clock is originally from the Wells-Shober Cottage, Campobello, New Brunswick. From the Emery family Elm Cottage, Elm Street, Eastport, Maine. Her father had once purchased the Wells-Shober Cottage including contents. Joyce tells of her father and brother bringing a truckload of furniture from the Cottage over to Eastport.
Gift of Joyce Emery Kinney, Eastport, Maine.
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