This information is taken directly from a brochure prepared by the Quoddy Maritime Museum in 2001. This brochure, The Eastport Walk-About, which also include maps and pictures is available at the Quoddy Maritime Museum, 70 Washington Street. (NR) denotes listing on National Register of Historic Places.
The Rice Cape 3 Green Street, Colonial center chimney cape. During the mid-1800s this cape was the residence of George I.G. Rice who was a prominent industrial merchant. |
The American Legion/Vestry Green Street. This building was built in the 1820s or early 1830s as a vestry for the Baptist church. It was used by the Frontier Guards in the 1860s and later by G.A.R., who let out the downstairs to the Salvation Army in the 1890s. today the brass cannon that fired salutes next to the hall is on the library lawn. |
The Stetson-Starboard House (NR) 13 Boynton Street, 1821 or 1822, Federal style. Gideon Stetson was a land speculator and a blacksmith who purchased the land for this house in 1821. The house was built for Ebenezer Starboard, who was in the clothing business with Mr. Rice and they were noted for making the uniforms of the Eastport Light Infantry. Although similar in design to the Kilby house next door, they are not identical. It does have a clapboard exterior and intricate fanlight and sidelights. This house was at the edge of The Great Fire of 1886 and was perhaps saved only because the engine house was across the street at the corner of Green and Boynton Streets and the enginemen fought there to save their own building. [Notice the Meals For Me building. It was once a fire station.] |
The Kilby House (NR) 15 Boynton Street, Federal style. Built by Daniel Kilby in 1820, this house was built on the site where the British military signed Moose Island back to U.S. authorities. Daniel Kilby was a partner of Deacon Hayden and their wharf was also the main trading place for the Passamaquoddy tribe. |
The Weston House (NR) 26 Boynton Street, hip roof Federal. Jonathan Weston built his home in 1810 on land purchased in 1807 for $600. He owned the sawmill that cut the boards most of the houses of that time were made from. The Weston House housed British officers during the British occupation of the island from 1814-1818. John James Audubon stayed at this house during his two visits to Eastport in 1832 and in his 1833 Labrador expedition in the schooner Ripley. Jonathan Weston was perhaps Eastport's first historian and a staunch supporter of libraries and literary pursuits. |
The Central Congregational Church (NR) 22 Middle Street, Federal style. In January of 1818, a religious society was formed under the name of "First Evangelical Congregational Church and Society of Eastport" which chose Deacon Ezekiel Prince, Capt. Thomas Rogers, Nathan Bucknam, Benjamin B. Leavitt and Daniel Low as the building committee. Daniel Low, an architect and master builder, took charge and completed the church prior to its dedication February 18, 1829. Mr. Low's carpenters were said to have been mostly ship's carpenters. The original steeple was blown off during the Saxby Gale of 1869. In 1830, by an act of the State legislature, the society's name was shortened to the "Central Congregational Society of Eastport." |
The Hayden House 17 Boynton Street, 1805, Federal. Deacon Aaron Hayden was a prominent merchant and owner of the Hayden wharf. General S.D. Leavitt, the first mayor of Eastport, later bought this house and had the third story added to it with a mansard roof and bay windows. Aaron Hayden, Jr. (the 19th) and William Kilby (the 29th) representatives from Eastport to the state legislature were born in this house. |
The Wentworth/Follis Store 31 Boynton Street, 1903. Jimmy Wentworth operated a confectionery store across the street from Eastport Elementary School [The former E.E.S. has become apartments. The building contains the only elevator in Eastport.] for over forty yeaqrs. The first floor was for groceries and the second was an ice cream parlor. He made his own candy and gingerpop, often with the help of the local youngsters. |
The Methodist Church 74 High Street. This church was built in 1820 by the Baptists who later moved to Washington Street. New to Eastport, the Methodists first rented the church on High Street and later purchased it. |
Boynton High School (NR) Corner of High and Boynton Streets. A good example of the Italainate style even though its facade has been altered and the cupola removed. This was the third school house built on this site and replaced the Old South schoolhouse that burned in 1846. Shortly after this fire the new Boynton School was started and was dedicated on May 28, 1847. James P. Wheeler, chairman of the building committee, was responsible for most of the school's construction. The school graduated its last class in 1917 when Shead Memorial High opened. The school was designed by the noted 19th century Boston architect, Gridley J.F. Bryant, the foremost exponent of the Boston Granite School of Architecture in the country. This was Bryant's earliest known work in Maine. The Eastport City Rooms occupy this building. |
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