Name/Title
Ambrose C. Ricker House | Church Street, Cherryfield, Maine | Cherryfield Historic DistrictDescription
Built:1880
Address:
Church Street
Cherryfield, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
Cherryfield Historic District
From National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
Section number 7, Page 25:
60. Ambrose C. Ricker House, 1880 - C Church street
Charles A. Allen, Builder
The Ricker house is a two-story, L-shaped frame building with modest Italianate style detailing. Its principal elevation consists of a projecting three-bay gabled block with a side entrance and the recessed two-story wing that has a porch across its lower story. Narrow hoods surmount the building' s two-over~two windows. A one-story ell proj ects to the rear of the house where it is joined to a barn. The entire building is sheathed in weatherboards.
In its october 12, 1880, edition the Machias union carried the notice that "Mr. Ambrose Ricker, Cherryfield, is occupying his new house, built; Mr. C. A. Allen having superintended the work of construction. Mr. R. has a very good house and buildings." Ricker was presumably a member of the family of blacksmiths who occupied a pair of houses (22, 23) on Park street.