Name/Title
Wadsworth-Raye House | 62 High Street | Eastport, Maine | I7-0C2-36 | District #34Entry/Object ID
034Description
This two story federal style house was built in about 1830 and sits back from the street. George Ferdinand Wadsworth and his wife and family occupied the house first or soon after it was built. The house has a gable roof with chimneys on each end. There is a five bay front facade with a central doorway. The Wadsworth family continued to live in the house for the next nearly 140 years. It was last occupied by George’s granddaughter, Helen Wadsworth Raye, who died in 1968. A front vestibule has come and gone over the years and currently is in place. A rear addition was added around 1900 and a garage beyond the addition in about 1915. The house was always painted yellow with green shutters when the Wadsworth family owned the house. The house always had a fence around it.
Email from John Raye, April 9, 2024: We never knew when or who built 62 High Street. We do know our family occupied it from approximately 1830 until 1969 . First George Ferdinand Wadsworth and later his granddaughter Helen Wadsworth Raye and her husband John Wesley Raye. A front vestibule has come and gone over the years. There was an addition added around 1900 I believe and then a garage around 1915(aprox). The house was always yellow with green shutters and had a fence around it.