Moody Mansion (Pittston, Maine)
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| Location | ME 194, across from the jct. with Hanley Rd., Pittston, Maine |
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| Coordinates | 44°10′32″N 69°40′24″W / 44.17556°N 69.67333°W |
| Area | 4.4 acres (1.8 ha) |
| Built | 1890 |
| Architect | Parfitt Bros. |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 06000394[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 17, 2006 |
The Moody Mansion is a historic house on Maine State Route 194 in Pittston, Maine. Built as a summer house in 1890, it is an imposing high-quality example of Late Victorian Queen Anne architecture, now housing apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]
Description and history
[edit]The Moody Mansion stands in the village of East Pittston, on the west side of SR 194, opposite its junction with Hanley Road. It is a large three-story wood-frame structure, dwarfing most of the nearby houses and buildings in the village. It has a complex cross-gabled roofline, with a large front-facing wall dormer whose gable is decorated with applied woodwork. The house exterior is finished in a variety of clapboards and decorative scalloped shingles. A single-story porch wraps across the front and around the left side, with an angled pavilion at the northeast corner, and a similar entry pavilion ath the southeast corner. The interior retains significant high quality features, despite having been altered several times for different uses.[2]
The house was built in 1890 for Leonard and Marianna Moody, to a design by the Parfitt Brothers of Brooklyn, New York. Leonard Moody was a Pittston native who met with financial success in the Brooklyn real estate business, and had this house built as a summer residence. The house was so large and elaborate for a modest rural community, that its construction garnered coverage from local newspapers. In 1903, the family let the house as a summer boarding house. It was sold out of the family after Leonard's death in 1905, and has since seen use as a nursing home, farmhouse, retirement home, and its present configuration with a restaurant (closed) on the ground floor and residences above.[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 Moody Mansion". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
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