The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-04-16
BUILDINGS IN SEARSPORT.
When Some Of the Public Buildings and
Residences Were Erected.

When Some of the Public Buildings anl
Residences Were Erected.
correspondence of The JournaIl
Following are the years in which some
of the public buildings and residences
in Searsport were built: The j. H. Lane
store on Main street in 1865; the Phineas
| Pendleton block on Main street in 1865;
the Otis Black brick store on Main
street in 1868; the B. 0. Sargent brick
store in 1869. THE roof of this store was
blown off in the great gale of September
9th of that year and landed on Teaches
| corner The Mosman house, across the
street from the Searsport National
| bank, was torn down in 1871. The house
was built in 1898 by Winthrop Smith,
who died in 1904. The property then
went into the hands of DR.. Nahum
Mosman, the first physician of Pros
pect, and remained in the possession of
| his heirs until it was taken down, when
the lumber was bought by Benjamin c..
Smith, a grandson of Winthrop Smith,
| who used it in the construction of his
new house near the Union schoolhouse,
| which was built in 1870.
The brick residence of Capt. Jeremiah
Sweetser on Main street was built in
1860; the residence of Capt. Isaac Car
yer on Main street in 1859; the resi-
dence of Capt. Phineas Pendleton, End,
in 1859; the residence of Capt. William
| McGilvery on Main street in 1860; the
Union schoolhouse in 1866; the Nichols
district schoolholse in 1866; the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church in 1910. and re-
| paired in 1864 and 1907; the Congrega-
tional Church was built in 1884, repair
| ed in 1864 and 1906; the Harbor Congre-
/ gational Church, was built in 1919 and
| repaired in 1906; the Alexander Leach
store, Main street, built in 1884; the j.
H. Sullivan store on Main street, built
in 1914 and occupied by William John.
son, tanner, who had small tannery
on Half Way Greek, and who after
wards sold out his business here and
moved to Boston, where he, engaging
| in the leather business, became very
wealthy.
| The Capt. John P. Nichols residence
| on Main street was built in 1864; the
Capt. Samuel Curtis residence on the
| Belfast road in 1864; the Richard Smart
block on Main street in 1858; the Meri
thew & Sweetser block on Main street
in 1s47. The Ephriam Colson house,
was built about the year 1900, near the
Merithew brick house on Church street,
and is now owned by F. H. Mosman
| The late Josiah Colson was born in this
| house August 80, 1902, and the late
| Cyrus True was born in this house Feb
| ruary 10, 1922. The house was then
| bought by the late jeremiah Merithew,
| ST., who moved it to the foot of Elm
street, near the Williams sail loft
where it remained for many years, until
bought by the late David Mosman, who
removed it to its present site. This is
one of the oldest houses in town. The
| Woodbury. house on Steamboat avenue
which was torn down a few years ago
was one of the first houses built in what
| is now Searsport This house was built
on what is now the Merrill mill lot or
Half Way Greek and is supposed tc
have been built by Richard Simpson,
who assisted in surveying the main road
now leading from Belfast to Fort Pow
nal in Prospect, where Brigadier Gen.
eral Waldo is buried. Richard Stimpsor
died in this house in 1918. 1t then be
came the property of Mark Blaisdell
then it was bought by Masters Chesley
and Henry Mathews, and during their
ownership it was occupied by Stephen
Blake and family from 1912 until 1916
1t was later sold to Jacob Ellis and
moved to Steamboat avenue, where he
lived in it for time. Afterwards ii
was occupied by the son-in-law of Mr..
Ellis, Capt. James Woodbury. and fami-
ly, until it was taken down. The story
that the house now occupied by Stephen
| Blake, on Water street was the first
frame house built in West Prospect,
now Searsport, has probably been con-
fused with the Simpson house, which
was occupied by MI. Blake's father
from 1912 to 1916. Who built the house
now occupied by Stephen Blake, and
when it was first constructed on Bay
View street, no one seems to know. 1t
was usad as a nrivata and a nnhlic
schoolhouse in the early part of the
'3O's, and later was used as a tenement
house until it was sold by the late John
Farlin to Capt. Osias Blake in 1916, and
moved to its present site. J. HIS.
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