Name/Title
Leavitt Block | 109 Water Street, Eastport, Maine | Eastport Historic DistrictDescription
-WATER109
I7-0B5-3B
Built:1887
Address:
109 Water Street
Eastport, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
Eastport Historic District
ARCHITECTS
Henry N. Black
ARCHITECTURAL STYLES
Italianate
From Eastport Walking Tour Brochure, 2010:
5) Leavitt Block (NR) 107, 109 Water St., 1887 Italianate. Gen. S.D. Leavitt was a noted insurance salesman, lawyer, wharf owner and the first mayor of Eastport. Shortly after Eastport was incorporated as a city in 1893, the city rooms operated from the upper floor of this block. On the first floor was F.A.B. Fields' jewelry and watch repair shop. J.A. Capen had a grocery store also on the first floor.
From National Register of Historic Places Eastport Historic District Nomination Form, p.4:
27. Leavitt Block, 1887. Henry Black, Architect. 107, 109 Water Street. Italianate, 2 stories, brick with wood and cast iron trim.
