Eastport Architecture Book

Clockwise from upper left:
121a. Siebert House, 5 Customs Street [2003]. Designed by QA 13 Architects of
Eastport.
121b. Shackford House, 10 Shackford Street [1841]. The porch and tower were later
nineteenth-century additions.
121c. 15 Green Street [c. 1887]. This is believed to have been a ‘temporary’
building constructed after the great fire of 1886 that leveled Eastport’s downtown and
waterfront. The building has been recently renovated into an artist’s studio.
121d. Weston House, 26 Boynton Street [1810]. John James Audubon stayed here
in the early 1830s, as Eastport served as the base for his trips to Labrador.
122. Door with rounded top in Brooks House, 17 Shackford Street [c. 1820].
123. Spiral staircase in Hawkes House, 15 Shackford Street [1816 –1818].
124. Panel of cabinet doors and portrait of George Washington, U.S. customs
house/post office building, 2 Washington Street [1891]. Designed by Willoughby J.
Edbrooke, U.S. Treasury Department architect.
125. Stetson-Starboard House, 13 Boynton Street [1821].
126 & 127. Victorian Row, showing three late nineteenth-century replacements
of earlier buildings that were swept away by the fire of 1886 that leveled Eastport’s
downtown and waterfront. R to L: Kilby House, 122 Water Street [1889]; Holmes House,
120 Water Street [1887]; Bucknam House, 118 Water Street [1887]. The latter was
designed by Henry Black of Boston and Saint John (New Brunswick).
128. Harris Point Cabin, Harris Point [c. 1930].
129. Storefront details, L to R: McMahon Building and Jackson Block [1887]. Both
were designed by Henry Black of Boston and Saint John (New Brunswick).
130. 56 Washington Street [c. 1840].
131. Double parlor, sliding doors and marble fireplace. Norwood House, 15 Key
Street [c. 1824].
132. Bibber House, 72 Washington Street [1883].
133. 17 Adams Street [c. 1880].
134. View from Washington Street of rear of Hayden House, 17 Boynton Street
[1805], showing late nineteenth-century mansard roof.
135. Shead House, 21 Middle Street [1819]. The mansard roof and bay window were
late nineteenth-century additions.
136. Window and shutters of ‘Type A’ temporary residence building, Quoddy
Village [1935]. Designed by John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens of Portland
(Maine). Part of the Passamaquoddy Bay Tidal Power Development Project. There
were seven shutter-cutout designs for Type A residences with “one design for each
house, varying so that no two adjacent houses will have the same design.” This detail
shows a crescent moon design.
137. Late-nineteenth century barn behind N.B. Nutt, Jr. House, 18 Shackford Street.
138. Holmes House, 120 Water Street [1887].
139. Kilby House, 122 Water Street [1889].
140. Delesdernier House, 7 Franklin Street [c. 1807]
141. Finch Double Tenement House [1901]. The wainscoting and flooring of this
house were salvaged from the U.S.S. Minnesota, a Civil War ship that was burned for
scrap at Broad Cove in Eastport in 1901.
142. Hayden House, 17 Boynton Street [1805]. Additions made in 1882 included the
mansard roof, two-story bay windows, and front and side porches; extensive interior
renovations were also done at this time.
143. Later porch addition of Patrick Whalen House, 7 Key Street. Original house
design attributed to Daniel Low of Eastport [c. 1820].
144. Gravestone, Hillside Cemetery. Carved image of a sinking sailing vessel. The
gravestone marks the loss at sea of the Crosby family, with husband Capt. Mariner S.
Crosby, 44 years of age, wife Sarah B. Crosby, 33 years of age, and their four children
(Mary, Lucy, Jacob and infant son), when their vessel, the brig Sarah B. Crosby, sank
in October, 1867. The epitaph reads: “How sad their fate amidst oceans waves, Where
they all sunk to watery graves, But in God’s word sweet hope is given, That we shall
meet again in Heaven.”
145. Staircase in Bibber House, while the house was undergoing restoration, 72
Washington Street [1883].
146. View looking west at roofs of lower Key Street houses from the third floor attic
of Shackford House, 4 Key Street.
147. 2 Lincoln Street [c. 1900].
148. Staircase, 16 Water Street [c. 1825].
149. Fanlight above front door, Brooks House, 17 Shackford Street [c. 1820].
150. Detail of original interior store shelving, Rumery Brothers Building, 56 Water
Street [1887]. The shelving runs the entire length of both sides of the main floor.
Building designed by Henry Black of Boston and Saint John (New Brunswick).
151. Babb House, 9 Key Street [1869]. This is the only stone house in Eastport.
152. Oliver Shead/E.A. Holmes House, 130 Water Street [1802]. This is the oldest
full two-story house in Eastport, although the Gothic bay window is a later addition.
153. Staircase in Capen House, 16 Key Street [1894].
156. Early twentieth-century painted alleyway sign on the Witherell/Holmes Block,
48–50 Water Street [1887].
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