Name/Title
Brogan Family House | 233 Main Street, Calais, Maine | Calais Residential Historic DistrictDescription
Built:c. 1845
Address:
233 Main Street
Calais, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
CALAIS RESIDENTIAL HISTORIC DISTRICT
Section number 7, Page 7:
9. Brogan Family House, c. 1845 - C 233 Main street
The Brogan Family House is a modest two-story, two-bay frame Greek Revival style building with a pedimented facade and telescoping rear ell. It has a side entrance framed by 'a shallow pedimented surround and a later three-sided bay window in the first story with a pair of six-over-six windows above. There are four symmetrically located windows on the east side (two on . each story) and two on the west side. The house is covered in vinyl siding, and a carriage barn formerly located at the rear of the lot has been removed.
Although its original owner is unknown, by 1856 it was owned by M.
Vickery. Sometime during the 1870s it was occupied (probably rented) by Thomas Horton, who owned a block of stores on Main street and operated a coal business and his wife Minerva King Horton, the daughter of William D. King and brother of Willard B. King, both prominent Calais citizens and businessmen in the nineteenth century. After the death of Thomas Horton, Minerva King Horton married the widower, Dr. Charles E. Swan and moved, with a large quantity of furniture from the King family to Dr. Swan's handsome residence on Swan St~eet which, at that time, was known as Grovenor street. Dr. Swan was an apprentice with Dr. Job Holmes, and later went on to Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College. upon his graduation he went into practice with Dr. Holmes and they were associated in medical practice for sixteen years. He was one of the earliest Calais physicians along with Drs. Holmes, Whipple, and Hamlin.