Name/Title
James Talbot House | East Machias, MaineDescription
East Machias, Maine
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.57:
JAMES R. TALBOT HOUSE
James R. Talbot (1819-1899) of the Pope and Talbot lumber company (which moved from East Machias to the State of Washington), who served in the Maine legislature, had James A. Tenney, of Portland, design this wooden frame three-story house in 1874. There are two mansard roofs, with a denticled cornice. A wooden keystone crowns the (U ched doorway of the central (of three bays) in the facade. Both flrst and second story windows are rectangles with cornices. Decorative modillions support the side eaves, 16 on each side but 22 on the facade. Each roof bay has a dormer. Behind the main house is an 1872 two-bay, two-and-a-half story ell, with a ell, with a pitched roof, asphalt shingled, clapboarded walls like the three-story main house. The interior stairway connects all floors. The flrst-floor hall has a parquet hardwood floor. Decorations are unique among Maine mansard houses of the period. ECR, JCB