Richardson_House_(Brunswick,_Maine)

Richardson House (Brunswick, Maine)

Richardson House (Brunswick, Maine)

Historic house in Maine, United States

The Richardson House, also known as the Captain George McManus House, is a historic house at 11 Lincoln Street in Brunswick, Maine. Built in 1857, it is a fine local example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate architecture in brick. McManus, for whom it was built, was a prominent local ship's captain.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1] For a time, it housed the museum of the Pejepscot Historical Society.

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Description and history

The Richardson House stands on the south side of Lincoln Street, just west of the town's business district. It is a two-story brick building with a hip roof and a granite foundation. The roof cornice is broad and studded with irregularly spaced Italianate brackets, with a line of dentil moulding. The street-facing facade is three bays wide, with all windows, with the Colonial Revival entrance set in a projection to the left, under a flat-roofed porch supported by square paneled pillars. The second floor's windows are set in round-arch openings, with a shallow iron balcony extending across all three.[2]

The house was built in 1857 for George McManus, a master mariner who lived here until his death in 1864. It is one of the region's finest examples of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate design, but its architect is unknown. In the mid-20th century, it was owned by the locally prominent Richardson family, and it served for several years as the parsonage for St. Paul's Episcopal Church.[2] It thereafter housed the museum collection for the Pejepscot Historical Society for a time; its collections are now in the Skolfield-Whittier House.

Richardson House is now an Airbnb and was featured in a recent Youtube video from Brunswick.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "NRHP nomination for Richardson House". National Park Service. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  3. [3]
    Escape to Coastal Maine: Winter Adventures in Freeport and Brunswick, retrieved March 27, 2023
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