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East Main Street Historic District (Searsport, Maine)

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with pedimented dormers. McGilvery (1829-1904) was a hugely popular ship's captain who is reported to have never lost a vessel. To this house's right stands the Capt. Jonathan C. Nickels House, an Italianate 2-1/2 story house, to which later Stick style and Queen Anne decorations have been applied. Like the McGilvery House, it has paired brackets in the eaves, but Stick style ornamentation has been added to its gables, and its facade has been finished in part in bands of scalloped shingles. Nickels' family at one time owned the land on which all five houses were built. Flanking his house to the right is the
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The East Main Street Historic District extends along United States Route 1, between Black Road to the west and Navy Street to the east. Three of the five houses are set on the north side of the road, while two are on its south side. One of the latter houses has land that extends all the way down to
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At the southeast corner of US 1 and Summer Street stands the Capt. Albert V. Nickels House. Built about 1874-75, it is a rambling 2-1/2 story Italianate structure, with Carpenter Gothic bargeboard and other jigsawn decorative elements. Albert Nickels was a brother of Jonathan, and was married to
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stands at the northeast corner of US 1 and Black Road, set back from the road. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a mansard roof characteristic of the Second Empire style. The house and its associated carriage barn both have bracketed and denticulated cornices, and have roofs studded
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east of the town center. All five houses are at least somewhat Italianate in style, and were built by ship's captains between about 1860 and 1875. The district was listed on the
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encompasses an architecturally distinctive collection of five residential properties on
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Maine
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William McGilvery's daughter Elizabeth. East of his house stands the
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Waldo County, Maine
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in 1991; three of the properties are also individually listed.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

East Main Street Historic District (Searsport, Maine) is located in Maine
East Main Street Historic District (Searsport, Maine) is located in the United States
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Searsport, Maine
44°27′27″N 68°54′53″W / 44.45750°N 68.91472°W / 44.45750; -68.91472
91001815
Searsport, Maine
United States Route 1
National Register of Historic Places
Penobscot Bay
Capt. John McGilvery House
Capt. William McGilvery House

Capt. John P. Nichols House
United States Navy
World War II
National Register of Historic Places listings in Waldo County, Maine
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"NRHP nomination for East Main Street Historic District"
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