Captain Merritt House

	Captain Merritt House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	619 High St., Bath, Maine
Coordinates	43°54′25″N 69°49′12.5″W / 43.90694°N 69.820139°W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1851
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	85000243
Added to NRHP	February 8, 1985

The Captain Merritt House is a historic house at 619 High Street in Bath, Maine. Built in 1851 for a ship's captain, its lavish Italianate styling epitomizes the wealth that came to the city in the mid-19th century. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

Description and history[edit]

The Captain Merritt House is located on the east side of High Street, which runs on the hill above the city's shipyards, and was in the 19th century a fashionable residential area. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a shallow-pitch hip roof and shiplap siding. The building corners are quoined, and the roof is pierced by hip-roof dormers. The main entrance is set at the center of the west-facing front facade, sheltered by a portico supported by paired Doric columns. A polygonal window bay projects above the portico. The south facade has a two-story projecting rectangular bay. The interior retains much of its original period woodwork, the dining room having been remodeled c. 1900 in the Colonial Revival style.^[2]

The house was built in 1851 for Captain Isaac Merritt, a shipbuilder and owner, whose brother Samuel Merritt, was also a successful businessman. Merritt died in 1862^[3], the house was later sold to William Rogers, another shipbuilder. The house's fine exterior and interior are symbolic of the city's success and significance as a shipbuilding and shipping center in the mid-19th century.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Captain Merritt House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
^ Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, Isaac Merritt, 1862; citing Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States, Maple Grove Old Yard Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,316,091

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Captain Merritt House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-05.

[3] Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, Isaac Merritt, 1862; citing Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States, Maple Grove Old Yard Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,316,091

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