Name/Title
Coombs House | 27 Boynton Street, Eastport, Maine | I7-0B3-25 | District #92Entry/Object ID
092Description
This two and half story wood frame house is known as the Coombs house. James Coombs came to Eastport in 1802 and had this house built in about 1820. In the early 1820s he moved to Orono. The house has a spiral staircase inside. A later occupant was William Chapman who was a furniture maker and ran a furniture business in Eastport’s downtown. The exterior of the house underwent extensive remodeling in 2023 and the original front doorway, windows and wood clapboard siding were replaced.
( ) From Eastport Sentinel, March 23, 1898, p.3,c.3: “In a recent letter our Dennysville correspondent published the inventory of the estate of a well known citizen of that town, which was made in 1830. He was a blacksmith by trade, and among the assets were six broad axes and eight dozen narrower axes, the manufacture of his own shop. This affords an illustration of the industrial changes which have taken place since that day. Now, like all other tools, axes are made in great establishments sometimes a good ways off. But the work is much more perfectly and artistically done, though the fathers got along pretty well with the old sort. Then nearly every town and village had its skillful mechanics who made up articles for sale. Some of our oldest readers can remember when the Eastport blacksmith shops of Joseph Whelpley and Gideon Stetson turned out well made toods and a variety of articles of iron and steel in common use; when the cabinet making establishments of Gideon Stickney and Wm. W. Chapman produced furniture of their own manufacture, which thmir successors still keep for sale, but most likely made away off in Michigan, then a remote wilderness....”
