Name/Title
Isaac Hobart House | 41 Boynton Street, Eastport, Maine | I7-0B2-24 | District #86Entry/Object ID
086Description
The Isaac Hobart House. This circa 1825 cape style house has two massive chimneys, six fireplace mantels and 12 over 8 hand- blown widows. Isaac Hobart was deeded 2,000 acres in Township 10 (now Edmunds Township) in 1792. He built a home, gristmill and sawmill there that same year. Later in 1808 he purchased the remainder of Colonel Aaron Hobart’s 18,000 original acres of woodlands that he used for timber harvest, sawmill and ship building. He purchased the property at 41 Boynton Street in Eastport in 1822, moved there in 1826. He lived there until his death in 1847 and his wife Joanna Hershey Hobart remained there until her death in 1858. When the British occupied Eastport from 1814-1818, this corner lot of Boynton and High Streets, stood across from the Old South School house, and was used as the summer mess for the British officers at Fort Sherbrooke just off the street on High Street.