Name/Title
Elbert Wiswell House | East Machias, MaineDescription
East Machias, Maine
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.56:
ELBERT WISWELL HOUSE
Elbert Wiswell was a blacksmith who was involved with his familys shipbuilding company. He hired IE.C. Seavey as master builder of his Mansard house, which was built in 1871- 1872. The Wiswell House is one and one-half stories high with pedimented dormer windows, dentil ornamentation and diamond motif in the woodwork, and has a front portico and bay windows. The house stands on a hill off of Route 191.