Contributed by Lubec Historical Society
Description
This structure, once known as the “Forewinds House,” stands on Main Street (State Route 189). The earliest deed registry sale is February 1861.
One of the oldest in Lubec, the original building dates from the 1850s. Initially a seven room farmhouse with adze-cut 12 by 12 cellar beams, an eight foot archway with heavy oak sliding doors connected main rooms. Subsequent additions added four 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) functioned 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 buildings, under various owners in the early 21st Century, appear much the same in 2012 as in this photograph.
About This Item
- Title: Forewinds House, Lubec, 1975
- Creator: Philip "Red" Morrison
- Creation Date: 1975
- Subject Date: 1975
- Location: Lubec, Washington County, ME
- Media: Kodachrome slide
- Dimensions: 2.4 cm x 3.5 cm
- Local Code: 545 jpg
- Object Type: Image
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- Fish canneries--Maine--Lubec
- Canneries--Maine--Lubec
- Buildings--Maine--Lubec
- Stores & shops--Maine--Lubec
- Dwellings--Maine--Lubec
- Houses--Maine--Lubec
- Canning and preserving
- Cats--Food
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For more information about this item, contact:
Lubec Historical Society135 Main Street, Lubec, ME 04652
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