Name/Title
Chadbourne House | 19 Shackford Street, Eastport, Maine | I7-0D2-10 | District #11Entry/Object ID
011Description
This two and a half story wood frame house was built about 1821. The four bay south side of this house fronts Shackford Street with entrance on the east end of the house. The house has a gable roof and clapboard siding. The house was extensively renovated in the 1990s including a garage addition with attached connector to the main house. Ichabod Rollins Chadbourne may have built this house at the time of his marriage to his second wife, Hannah Lincoln, the granddaughter of Revolutionary War Major General Benjamin Lincoln. I.R. Chadbourne graduated Dartmouth College in 1809, passing the bar in 1812, shortly after which he came to Eastport. He was noted as an excellent orator and was town moderator six times. He was involved with one of the three Fire Clubs (organized bucket brigades), the Always Ready Fire Club. In 1839 and 1840 he was elected to represent Eastport at the Maine Legislature.
From Eastport Walking Tour Brochure, 2010:
The Chadbourne House 19 Shackford Street. Ichabod Rollins Chadbourne may have built this house, circa 1821, at the time of his marriage to his second wife (Hannah Lincoln), the granddaughter of Revolutionary War Major General Benjamin Lincoln. I.R. Chadbourne graduated Dartmouth College in 1809, passing the bar in 1812, shortly after which he came to Eastport. He was noted as an excellent orator and was town moderator six times. He was involved with one of the three Fire Clubs (organized bucket brigades), the Always Ready Fire Club. In 1839 and 1840 he was elected to represent Eastport at the Maine Legislature.
