The house is a mid-19th century Italinate/Folk Victorian, built in 1868, with updates around 1900 to 1910. It sits on a busy street near downtown Bangor, on a deep and narrow sloping lot, with a large back yard.
When we got it in 2009, it still had, miraculously, its original trim, most of the original window glass, and most of the original hardware. In some spots I think it still had the original paint clinging to bare wood.
It also had a partially completed addition on the back, the remains of a project that was abandoned when the developer discovered that the building could not be broken up into apartments. For the full story, see the History page.
The house faces North on a 50′ x 200′ lot. The layout hasn’t changed a lot, the view on the left is from a Sanborn Insurance Map of 1889 (note the porch running up the East side of the house).
The Floor Plans above show the layout as we found it. On the ground floor, to one side the front entrance and hallway with what was once a dining room (we think), on the other side the original front and back parlors combined into one living room. Behind that in the ell, the kitchen and dining area.
On the second floor, two bedrooms and the bath in the main block, two more rooms in the ell. The second-floor plan shown here includes the unfinished staircase to the attic the developers were attempting to create.