Name/Title
Sentinel Building | 42 Water Street, Eastport, Maine | Eastport Historic DistrictDescription
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I7-0C5-34/35
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
Eastport Historic District
ARCHITECTS
Henry N. Black
ARCHITECTURAL STYLES
Italianate
From Eastport Walking Tour Brochure, 2010:
25) Sentinel Building (NR) 42 Water St., 1887, Italianate. Eastport's long running newspaper, from 1819 to 1953, was rebuilt for business at this location and operated the newspaper on the third floor for many years. In 1888, Henry Reynolds operated a bookstore that also sold cigars, newspapers and books on the first floor while Frank Higgins ran a billiards room on the second floor. Today S.L. Wadsworth's and Son has a hardware store in this building. Samuel B. Wadsworth, son of Gen. Peleg Wadsworth of Revolutionary War Fame and uncle of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, opened a store in Eastport in 1818. The family has carried on the mercantile tradition in Eastport through six generations and many natural disasters, running a ship chandlery and hardware store.
From National Register of Historic Places Eastport Historic District Nomination Form, p.2:
14. Sentinel Building, 1887 42 Water Street Italianate, 3 stories, brick with ornamental brick decoration. Henry Black, Architect.
