The Lincoln House, located on Main Street, is likely the oldest surviving building in the town of Dennysville and dates from the first settlement of the area in the late eighteenth century. The side-gabled house sits on a mortared fieldstone foundation and is covered with clapboard siding. The structure is two stories with a central doorway topped with a triangular pediment. The home was built by master builder Joshua Chubbuck for Theodore Lincoln. Lincoln was sent to what became Dennysville in 1786 by his father General Benjamin Lincoln, one of the area's proprietors, who was too ill to travel to the Maine wilderness. General Lincoln, who served in the Continental Army, played integral parts at the Battle of Saratoga and the British surrender at Yorktown. He later served as Secretary of War from 1781-1784. Theodore Lincoln became a judge and he befriended famed naturalist, John James Audubon. Theodore's son, Thomas, even traveled with Audubon during his famous Labrador Expedition where Audubon named a species of sparrow after the family. The Lincoln family retained ownership of the house into the twentieth century. The home currently serves as an inn.
Year Listed: 1978
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