The Blazo-Leavitt House is an excellent example of a Federal-style residence in rural Maine. It was built by Daniel Blazo, the son of a shipbuilder and merchant of French descent from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is believed he hired ship carpenters in Portsmouth who were unemployed by the Embargo of 1807 (which was enacted to protect American sailors, but unfortunately greatly curtailed trade in the North Atlantic). The carpenters completed elaborate interior woodwork and features including intersecting central hallways with arched ceilings. The house has two prominent facades, each with a central door flanked by sidelights and surmounted by a fanlight with elaborate tracery. There is also a central Palladian window on the second floor of the southern-facing faade. The dwelling sits on a granite foundation and is sheathed with clapboard siding and topped with a low pitched hipped roof with four large internal end chimneys. Blazo's great-great grandson, John Greenleaf Leavitt, was a distinguished naturalist at Harvard University and was the last of the family to occupy the house. It is still a private residence.
Year Listed: 1981
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