Captain Merritt House
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| Location | 619 High St., Bath, Maine |
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| Coordinates | 43°54′25″N 69°49′12.5″W / 43.90694°N 69.820139°W |
| Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
| Built | 1851 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 85000243[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 8, 1985 |
The Captain Merritt House is a historic house at 619 High Street in Bath, Maine. Built in 1851 for a ship's captain, its lavish Italianate styling epitomizes the wealth that came to the city in the mid-19th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
Description and history
[edit]The Captain Merritt House is located on the east side of High Street, which runs on the hill above the city's shipyards, and was in the 19th century a fashionable residential area. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a shallow-pitch hip roof and shiplap siding. The building corners are quoined, and the roof is pierced by hip-roof dormers. The main entrance is set at the center of the west-facing front facade, sheltered by a portico supported by paired Doric columns. A polygonal window bay projects above the portico. The south facade has a two-story projecting rectangular bay. The interior retains much of its original period woodwork, the dining room having been remodeled c. 1900 in the Colonial Revival style.[2]
The house was built in 1851 for Captain Isaac Merritt, a shipbuilder and owner, whose brother Samuel Merritt, was also a successful businessman. Merritt died in 1862,[3] the house was later sold to William Rogers, another shipbuilder. The house's fine exterior and interior are symbolic of the city's success and significance as a shipbuilding and shipping center in the mid-19th century.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Captain Merritt House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
- ^ Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, Isaac Merritt, 1862; citing Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States, Maple Grove Old Yard Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,316,091
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