HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The John Moore House is a historic house on Cross Point Road in
Edgecomb, Maine Edgecomb is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,188 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of East Edgecomb, North Edgecomb, and Pools Landing. The town was named for George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Ed ...
. With elements dating to the early 1740s, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in
Mid Coast The Midcoast is a region of Maine that includes the coastal counties of Lincoln, Knox, Waldo, Sagadahoc, and the northern coastal portion of Cumberland counties. Some of the towns are: *Alna * Arrowsic * Bath *Belfast *Boothbay * Boothbay ...
Maine. The connected farmstead includes a barn that was built before 1850. The property was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1979.


Description and history

The John Moore House stands in a rural part of northern Edgecomb, on the east side of Cross Point Road. The house is a connected farmstead, with a 1-3/4 story main block, and an elongated -story ell joining it to a barn. It is finished in wooden clapboards and its parts are covered by gabled roofs. The main block has a central chimney, and its facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by sidelight windows and a cornice above. There are small second-story windows below the roof line. The parlors of the main block retain original period woodwork. The land on which this house stands was granted to John Moore in 1736, and the house is known to have been standing in 1741. It was original a -story Cape, with its roof raised c. 1765 by John Grey, who purchased it from Moore in 1764. In 1850, the ell was built, and the barn was moved from another location to this place and connected to it. In the late 19th century, the house was owned by William Manson Patterson, a ship's captain.


See also

*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lincoln County, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Maine, United St ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, John, House Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, Maine Colonial architecture in the United States Houses completed in 1740 Houses in Lincoln County, Maine 1740 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies