Name/Title
Herbert Kilby House | 122 Water Street, Eastport, MaineDescription
-WATER122
I7-0A4-08
Built:1889
Address:
122 Water Street
Eastport, Maine
ARCHITECTURAL STYLES
Queen Anne
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.33:
HERBERT KILBY HOUSE (KILBY HOUSE INN).
At 122 Water Street, the comer of Adams Street, opposite the Mowe House, is Kilby House Inn, a bed-and-breakfast. Herbert Kilby, a prominent Eastport merchant, with his wife Harriet Pike's family, operated the Pike and Kilby Store in Eastport. On the site of the last residence destroyed in the 1886 fire, Kilby built this simplified Queen Anne Style Victorian house in 1887-1888. Herbert's daughter, Miss Lucy Kilby, who taught science at Shead High School for many years, inherited and lived here for even more years. A two-story, clapboarded residence, it has a pediment over the entryway (with pillars on each side), eight two-over-two first-floor windows, bargeboarding beneath the roof, and there is one chimney. Since 1992 the present owners have restored this house.
GN, JPG, JCB
• From Eastport Sentinel, August 14, 1889, p.3,c.1: “J.D. Young and Herbert Kilby, who are having new buildings built this summer, are having them wired for electric lights, and both houses are to be heated by the Gurney hot water heating apparatus.”
• From Eastport Sentinel, October 9, 1889, p.3,c.: “Mr. Herbert Kilby has moved into his handsome new house at the corner of Water and Adams streets.”
• From Eastport Sentinel, October 16, 1889, p.3,c.5:
“Wedding Anniversary.
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On the occasion of their 4th anniversary, Tuesday evening, Oct. 15th, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kilby received a number of their friends in their new house, corner of Water and Adams streets.
It was a sort of “house-warming,” and the glow from the open fire as the guests entered, gave a very cheerful appearance to the new house, which is a perfect model of its kind, being a Queen Anne cot-[typo or rest of word “cottage” left out] with all the modern improvements. It has been furnished with a great deal of taste and care, and the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Kilby heartily congratulated them, wishing them “many years of happiness, and all the rooms full of blessings.”
• From Eastport Sentinel, April 16, 1890, p.2,c.4-6: “A Walk up North End" (see WATER118):
The houses on the opposite side of Water Street are much superior to those before standing there, especially the group of three at the northern extremity of the burnt district, the houses of Messrs. Joseph Bucknam, J.H. Rumery, and Herbert Kilby, the last recently built and still waiting its final touches, and all are excellent specimens of modern houses of their class.
