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Description
This summer residence of Sylvester B. Beckett was known as "Beckett's Castle." It was constructed in about 1850 and built in the Gothic style.
The two people in the foreground may be Augusta Beckett Verrill and Sylvester B. Beckett.
About This Item
- Title: Sylvester B. Beckett House, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1880
- Creation Date: circa 1880
- Subject Date: circa 1880
- Location: Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 22.7 cm x 17 cm
- Local Code: Photographs--Cape Elizabeth
- Object Type: Image
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- Houses--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
- Beckett, Sylvester B.--Homes and haunts--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
- Architecture, Victorian
- Historic buildings--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
- Dwellings--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
- Architecture, Domestic
- Vacation homes--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
- Gothic revival (Architecture)
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