Name/Title
George Lord House | 273 Main Street, Calais, Maine | Calais Residential Historic DistrictDescription
Built:c. 1880
Address:
273 Main Street
Calais, Maine
National Register
HISTORIC DISTRICT
National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet
CALAIS RESIDENTIAL HISTORIC-DISTRICT
Section number 7, Pages 13-14:
19. George Lord House, c. 1880 - C 273 Main Street
This two-story, two-bay Italianate style frame house is covered by a hipped roof and is sheathed in wide aluminum siding. Its front (north) elevation contains a two-story rectangular bay window in its eastern bay, and a paired double-hung window below a single double-hung in the westside. Paired brackets support the broad eaves and narrow cornice which carries around the house. A small hip roofed dormer is centered on the roof. A shed roofed porch (which is not the original) on the west elevation shelters the entrance located in the recessed projecting block.
This house was owned by George Lord, a native of Ellsworth, Maine, who operated a grocery and ship chandlery store on Main street which he established in 1871. He had spent sixteen years at sea before coming to Calais. He also carried on a ship building business supervised by his brother-in-law, H. A. Rideout, who was a marine architect and ship builder, having built the famous clipper hip ANNIE H SMITH. In addition to being a businessman, Mr. Lord was a director of the Calais National Bank, and an alderman in his ward in 1855.