Built 1861 (1861) Opened 1861 Added to NRHP 6 October 1983 | NRHP Reference # 83003688 Area 2,000 m² | |
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Location US 1, Robbinston, Maine Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture | ||
The Henrietta Brewer House, originally the Cottage House and now the Redclyffe Shore Motel, is a historic residence (now being used as a motel) on U.S. Route 1 in Robbinston, Maine, United States. Built between 1861 and 1863, the house is one of the finest examples of high-style Gothic Revival architecture in Down East Maine. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Description and history
The Henrietta Brewer House is set on a bluff overlooking the St. Croix River, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Calais on United States Route 1. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with irregular and somewhat rambling massing, with steeply pitched gable roof sections, and clapboard siding. The house's ornate Gothic Revival features include lancet-arch windows with eared hoods, jigsawn vergeboard in most of its gables, and finials at the points of the gables. The roof has two major north-south gabled sections, which are joined by a transverse section, with dormers projecting at a variety of points. The interior features high quality finishes in the Greek Revival style.
The house was built in 1861-63 for Henrietta Brewer, the wife of John Nehemiah Marks Brewer, whose Greek Revival house stands a short way to the south. Of the houses in this part of eastern Maine, it is the only major example of high Victorian Gothic style. Comparable houses in Calais (notably the Gilmore and Washburn houses, have a less formal Carpenter Gothic flavor.