Name/Title
David W. Campbell House | Main Street, Cherryfield, Maine | Cherryfield Historic DistrictDescription
Cherryfield, Maine
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p.95:
DAVID W. CAMPBELL HOUSE
Said to have been built by housewright David W. Cartwright as a Federal period residence in 1828, this was his home until his death, and his widow was still dwelling here in 1881. This twostory, gable-roofed, wooden frame house on Main Street illustrates not only earlier architecture but also later Italianate style of the 1880's. A hipped roof porch, with balusters and turned posts, shelters a center door entrance. Five two-over-two windows on the second floor, as well as pairs on each side of the first-floor facade, are shuttered. Above the central window, of the five bays, is a denticulated cornice with round arched window. A cupola; with Palladian windows, crowns the pent gable roof at each end. Small arched windows are repeated on the pediments beneath each chimney at the gable ends. On the south side of the two-story rear ell is a one-story addition with twin dormer windows. F AB, lCB
National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
Section number 7, Page 18:
45. David W. Campbell House, 1828 - C Main Street
N.R. 7/19/84
constructed in 1828, the David W. Campbell House is a two-story fivebay frame dwelling featuring a variety of later nineteenth century additions. The synutietrically composed primary elevation has a central entrance sheltered by a broad hipped roof porch with turned posts, balusters, and ornamentation. Two-over-two windows pierce the flush sheathed facade which is framed by broad pilasters and capped by a thin denticulated cornice. A pent gable with a round-arched window is located above the center bay. The gable roof, which is punctuated by two gable end chimneys, is crowned by a handsome cupola with a cross gable roof and Palladian window. Both gable ends have pediments and the small round-arched window that appears on the facade. At the rear is a two-story ell along the south side of which is an Italianate style porch. Beyond is a one-story addition with dormers and pronounced, shaped brackets that connects to an outbuilding with similar detailing . Much of the decorative treatment probably dates to the third quarter ·of the nineteenth century whereas the front porch is probably from the 1880s, although it is not shown on Sanborn maps from as late as 1925.
Tradition holds that the original Federal period dwelling was constructed by housewright David W. Campbell who then made it his residence. Campbell apparently lived here until his death since his wife was still occupying the property as late as 1881 when her name appeared on the Washington County atlas of that date.