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You searched for: Year start: 1900✖Year end: 1910✖Place: is exactly 'Southwest Harbor, Manset'✖Contributor: Southwest Harbor Public Library✖Subject: Structures✖Subject: Dwellings✖Subject: House✖Subject: Other Structures✖
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Old Ward House Benjamin Ward House Customs House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Description: The original house was built in 1830 for Benjamin Ward and is one of the oldest still existing buildings in Southwest Harbor. The house once held the U.S. Customs House [T-184] and was sold by Eldora Dolliver Ward to sea captain William W. King in 1905 (426/105). It was sold by Lottie King Reed to Emery Norwood in 1946 (712/121). Emery died July 22, 1953, leaving as heir-at-law Edna G. Hurd Norwood, who lived in the house until she sold it to John Eugene Jacobson in 1975 (1209/647). The shed ell was reported to have belonged to Albert “Uncle Al” King, who used it as a boat shed on the shore of 373 Seawall Road. The small barn in the rear is Jake Jacobson’s shop. (map 1, lot 44) - Burnham, John, Rebecca. - Our Neighborhood – Manset and Seawall (Southwest Harbor Historical Society, Southwest Harbor, 2015) 78-79. [show more] | ||
Community House V.I.A. Hall Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Description: Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Historic Building/Structure Survey #405-0943 |