Name/Title
Episcopal Parsonage | 2 School Street, Eastport, Maine | I7-0C3-10 | District #40Entry/Object ID
040Description
One of only two houses on the short side lane named School Street, this two and half story Italianate style house was built in 1887 and designed by Francis Fassett, architect of Portland, Maine. Allen W. Clark served as master builder of the wood framed and wood clapboard house. It has a pyramid style roof and a dormer window on the east side. The house originally served as the parsonage for the Christ Episcopal Church next door. The building stands 30 feet square with a small ell off the northwest corner of the house. A porch extends along the south side of the house where the front entrance is located. The east end of the house has two original bay windows. The house is very much intact to its original construction both inside and outside.
• From Eastport Sentinel, May 4, 1887, p.3.c.1: “A lot of land adjoining the Episcopal church on the north and extending to the Brooks school house lot, has been given to the society by Gen. Leavitt for a building site for a parsonage. The lot has a frontage of 100 feet on the east and a depth of 54 feet. Plans for a handsome two story cottage in the Queen Anne style of architecture have been prepared by Mr. Fassett, architect, of Portland. The building will be 30 feet square, with an ell. A veranda will extend along the south side from which t`e front entrance will be made, and the east end will be finished with two bay windows. Mr. Allen W. Clark will have charge of the construction.”
• From Eastport Sentinel, January 18, 1888, p.2,c.4-6, p.3,c.1-2: Eastport’s Building Record for the Past Year. .... The new parsonage built by the Episcopal society on land adjoining the church lot, is a handsome building in the Queen Anne style of architecture, the plans for which were drawn by Mr. Fassett of Portland, and the work done by A.W. Clark, master builder. The house sets up well from the oround, has pleasant bay windows on the east, and a roomy veranda on the south side. Every building of which mention is made in the foregoing was erected the past year, ...\"
