The Boynton Street Historic District, in Eastport, includes three Federal style homes dating from 1810-1822: Weston House (1810), Kilby House (1820), and Stetson-Starboard House (1822). Each are similar in materials and layout: two stories high with low-pitched hipped roofs and clapboard siding. Each front facade has a central entry with distinctive doors. Federal-style residences are not common in Eastport, and this represents the finest concentration of this style east of Machias. Later additions to the houses, such as the Italianate-style hood over the front entry of the house on the right, demonstrate how owners continued to add popular architectural trends to their homes. This district was a product of the fishing and shipping industries which sustained the town and made a few families considerably wealthy during the early nineteenth-century. Jonathan Weston was a prominent attorney who secured possession of Eastport for the federal government after British occupation in 1814-1818. Daniel Kilby was a shipowner, and Gideon Stetson was a blacksmith and speculator who sold the land to Ebenezer Starboard to build a residence.
Year Listed: 1984
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