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Gerrish Warehouse

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841: 93: 257:. The building was a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation, and measured about 35 by 45 feet (11 m × 14 m). It had large doors at its northern and southern facades, the south (water-facing) ones of simple boards, those facing north paneled. It had sash windows, with interior shutters that slid into place. Its floors consisted of plain floorboards, with access to the upper level gained by ladder stairs. 68: 852: 51: 100: 75: 876: 280:
in 1976. Although the museum developed plans to move the building to a more secure location (its foundation was being undermined by tidal erosion), these plans were not realized, and the building was subsequently demolished; its contents remain at the museum's location in
730: 276:, had their properties seized by the state and sold off. In 1797 the warehouse came into the hands of Robert Follett, whose daughter married William Thompson Gerrish. The Gerrishes converted the building into a ship chandlery, finally selling it to the 825: 761: 745: 735: 240:
in 1977. The museum's plan to move the building by barge to a new location was judged infeasible, and it was subsequently demolished after the museum had recovered its contents. It was removed from the National Register in 2015.
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The warehouse was built c. 1710, and was one part of the large shipping empire of the Pepperrell family, whose most famous member was Sir
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The Gerrish Warehouse was located on the southern shore of Kittery Point, off Pepperrell Road (
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was a historic 18th-century warehouse, located on Pepperrell Cove in
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and was knighted for this success. Pepperrell's descendants,
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Gerrish Warehouse is located in Maine
Gerrish Warehouse is located in the United States
Kittery, Maine
43°4′52″N 70°43′6″W / 43.08111°N 70.71833°W / 43.08111; -70.71833
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Kittery Point, Maine
William Pepperrell
ship chandlery
Maine Maritime Museum
National Register of Historic Places
Maine State Route 103
First Congregational Church
William Pepperrell
Siege of Louisbourg
Loyalists
American Revolutionary War
Maine Maritime Museum
Bath
National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Maine


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


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