George W. Bourne House, 104 Summer Street (State Route 35), Kennebunk, York County, ME
Summary
Significance: The conventional late Federal style brick house was built in 1826 for George W. Bourne, a shipbuilder at a Kennebunk River shipyard. In 1855, Bourne designed and added the elaborate Gothic Revival trim. This wooden "frosting" was designed to match a connected barn decorated in a similar manner.
Survey number: HABS ME-74
Building/structure dates: 1826- 1829 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1855 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Lord, Harold I
Bourne, George W
Myers, Denys Peter
Borchers, Perry E
Choteau Brown, Frank
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Location
Kennebunk (Me.), 43.40067, -70.55523
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html