Name/Title
1805 House | High Street, East Machias, MaineDescription
East Machias, Maine
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.58:
1805 HOUSE
Built in 1805, and located on Academy Hill, High Street, State Route 191, next door to the 1823 Washington Academy building and across the street from the new brick Washington Academy building, this is a two-and-one-half story clapboarded, center-door home with shingled roof, two chimneys, five one-over-one sash windows (with shutters) on the second floor, four windows on the first floor, (two one each side ofthe door). The 1805 House was owned by Susan L. Sanborn until March 12, 1874, when she willed it to Gardner C. Pope and Lillian D. Pope, from whom the present owners bought this house in 1978. WLP, VA, JCB