Built 1805 (1805) NRHP Reference # 83003644 Area 1,200 m² | Architect Eaton,Moses Opened 1805 Added to NRHP 20 October 1983 | |
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Location Bog Rd., East Vassalboro, Maine Architectural style Federal, Federal Style Cape | ||
The Philip Leach House is a historic house on Bog Road in East Vassalboro, Maine. Built about 1805, it is a well-preserved local example of a Federal style Cape house. It is notable for the stencilwork and floor painting in its parlor, which are the work of the itinerant folk art stenciler Moses Eaton Jr. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Description and history
The Philip Leach House stands on the west side of the village of East Vassalboro, on the north side of Bog Road just west of the public library. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by sidelight windows. The parlor, located on the left side of the building, has been extensively adorned with stencilwork. Painted in green, red, and yellow, the artwork includes abstract and floral designs. The original floorboards were also painted, with leaf patterns executed in freehand.
the house was built about 1805 for Philip Leach, a lawyer who also served as East Vassalboro's postmaster. The artwork in the parlor was executed, probably by Moses Eaton Jr., not long before he gave up his itinerant artwork and settled down in New Hampshire as a farmer. It was probably executed around 1825, was covered by wallpaper not long afterward. It was exposed during restoration in the early 1980s.