My Home's Story: An Historical Mystery by Lea Wait
My Home’s Story: An Historical Mystery In the mid-1950s my grandparents and parents bought a Maine house built in 1774. Since then the house has served as a full or part-time residence for almost everyone in the family. I’m lucky to be the current (full-time) owner. Of course, any old house comes with stories. In the case of this house, over 240 years of memories. The house’s history has also landed it in many books on Maine history, and, although it has never been opened to the public, in many Maine guidebooks. It’s known as the Marie Antoinette House. Captain Stephen Clough, the house’s owner in the 1780s and 90s, was in the “salt and spar” trade: he ...