Name/Title
Sawyer House | 9 Calais Avenue, Calais, Maine | Calais Residential Historic DistrictDescription
Built:c. 1840
Address:
9 Calais Avenue
Calais, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.6:
9 CALAIS AVENUE
This house was also built by Mr. Sawyer about 1840 for another daughter. He changed the exterior design so as to differentiate two structures otherwise almost identical. Like 7 Calais A venue, the house at 9 is two-story Greek Revival, with the same four bays. The porch is held up by Doric columns, with gable ends, and first-story windows are long. The porch has been enclosed, on the south end, and a modem garage, for 3 vehicles, has been added. KFM, JCB
From National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
CALAIS RESIDENTIAL HISTDRIC DISTRICT
Section number 7, Page 4:
2. Sawyer House, c. 1840 - C 9 Calais Avenue
While less formal than its neighbor to the north, this two-story, fourbay Greek Revival style house is noteworthy for its wraparound porch supported on Doric columns, its pedimented gable ends, long first story facade windows, and back hall plan. It is sheathed entirely in weatherboards. The symmetrically composed front (east) elevation features four nine-over-nine windows on the first story and an equal number of sixover-six sash on the second story. Separating these two levels is the porch which extends across the south end of the main block (where it has been enclosed), across the facade, and along the north end. Its columns rest on a river stone balustrade wall and the central section of the facade bows outward. Interior end chimneys rise through the roof ridge at each end of the house, and an off-set two-story ell extends to~he rear. A modern three stall garage is located at the rear of the lot, whereas the front is distinguished by a granite block retaining wall which matches the one to the north.
Tradition maintains that this substantial dwelling was built by the local carpenter/builder Sawyer for one of his daughters. Sawyer is said to have also erected the adjacent Greek Revival dwelling (1) to the north for another daughter.
