Name/Title
Freeman-Wakefield House | Route 1, Cherryfield, Maine | Cherryfield Historic DistrictDescription
Built:By 1861
Address:
Route 1
Cherryfield, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
Cherryfield Historic District
National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
Section number 7, Pages 6-7:
7. Freeman-Wakefield House, By 1861 - C Route 1
The Freeman-Wakefield House is a one-and-a-half-story frame building exhibiting a transitional Greek Revival-Italianate style form. It is sheathed in weatherboards. The two-bay gable front facade is composed of a side entrance with sidelights and a bracketed' entablature, a three-sided bay window, and two windows sheltered by bracketed hoods in the gable peak. Paneled pilasters rise to a wide cornice detailed with paired brackets. A long one-story ell originally projected to the rear.
In 1861 this house was occupied by W. Freeman. It is not clear whether this was the same member of the Freeman family who subsequently established an estate on the opposite side of the river. Edward C. Wakefield had acquired it by 1881. He was in partnership with his father in the manufacture of castings and machinery.