The Wilson Museum - John Perkins House
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Description: Built about 1763 as a one-story house on what is now Court Street, includes a schedule located at Castine.
Welcome to the John Perkins House located at the Wilson Museum Sundays & Wednesdays 2-5 p.m. was built about 1763 as a one-story house on what is now Court Street, but was then a wilderness. John and his young bride Phebe (sic), both from York, Maine, began their married life here. They had few near neighbors; by 1774 there were only six other houses on the Castine peninsula - three of these log cabins. As the Perkins family grew and prospered a four-room two-story addition was built across the gable end of the early home. Again, probably in 1783, the house was enlarged - the first one-story home being torn down to be rebuilt as a two-story ell.
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