Name/Title
Milliken House | 29 Washington Street, Eastport, Maine | I7-0B3-09 | District #118Entry/Object ID
118Description
This two and a half story house was built in 1846 for Benjamin F. Milliken. The house has a gable roof with original wood brackets. Two dormer windows were added to the south side of the roof in 1882. It’s likely that around the same time, the two one story bay windows on the south side of the house were added as well. The house has an enclosed side porch with main entrance on the east side of the house. Milliken owned a wharf just off Eastport’s downtown. He was a successful wholesale fish dealer, oil and coal merchant and involved with other business ventures. The house retains many of its original wood furnishing that Milliken had made in New Orleans.
From Eastport Walking Tour Brochure, 2010:
68) The Milliken House 29 Washington Street. Benjamin F. Milliken owned a wharf just off the downtown area of Water St. He was a successful wholesale fish dealer, oil and coal merchant and involved with other business ventures.
From Milliken House website (11/26/2010) of www.eastport-inn.com:
Step back into the 19th century in this large, gracious 1846 Victorian home, just two blocks up from Eastport Maine's Historic District Waterfront. Our historic B&B inn accommodations are a wonderful lodging alternative to local hotels or motels. Victorian buffs will be delighted with the ornately carved, marble-topped furniture, knick knacks and books with which the builder, Benjamin F. Milliken, furnished his home, and which he left intact. Mr. Milliken maintained a wharf on Eastport's busy waterfront from which he serviced the tall ships that used the harbor for a flourishing international trade throughout the 1800's.
( ) From Eastport Sentinel, May 3, 1882, p.3,c.2: “IMPROVEMENTS.—Mr. B.F. Milliken is having dormer windows added to his house on Washington street, which will somewhat improve the appearance of his fine residence."
