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Description
This structure, once known as the “Forewinds House,” stands on Main Street (and State Route 189). The earliest deed registry sale is February 1861.
One of the oldest in Lubec, the building dates from the 1850s. Initially a seven room farmhouse, subsequent additions added four rooms.
Original construction details reveal adze-cut 12 by 12 cellar beams, and an eight foot archway with heavy oak sliding doors connecting main rooms.
Early residents operated a sort of Bed and Breakfast, taking in overnight stopovers, their horses stabled in the property’s barn. By the mid-20th century a fish stand, a complete all-steps factory, behind the house, where the property abuts Johnson Bay, put up smoked herring.
In 1949 Lubec entrepreneur Sherman Denbow added a factory and boiler house behind the house, constructed a warehouse to store the product for shipping, and canned cat food under the names of “Fuzzy Wuzzy” and “Kalico Kat.”
The raising of hens for eggs and meat continued into the 1960s. Despite deterioration, as of 2009 the house looks much the same.
About This Item
- Title: Forewinds House, Lubec, ca. 1940, ca. 1940
- Creation Date: circa 1940
- Subject Date: circa 1940
- Location: Lubec, Washington County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 8.4 cm x 12.4 cm
- Local Code: 4 jpg
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Herring
- Canning & preserving--Maine--Lubec
- Smoked fish
- Pet food industry--Maine--Lubec
- Dwellings--Maine--Lubec
- Buildings--Maine--Lubec
- Historic buildings--Maine--Lubec
- Fishery processing--Maine--Lubec
- Taverns (Inns)--Maine--Lubec
- Hotels--Maine--Lubec
- Food industry--Maine--Lubec
- Smokehouses--Maine--Lubec
- Canned fish industry--Maine--Lubec
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Lubec Historical Society135 Main Street, Lubec, ME 04652
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