Situated near the Camden-Rockport town line, the Conway House is a modest-sized wood-framed Cape. The Cape was a popular residential building form in the 1700s and early 1800s and many of Maine's earliest houses were constructed in this manner. The Conway House exemplifies the Cape form of a side-gabled roof with a large central chimney and two rooms on either side. The roof line is low and the windows and doors are positioned close to the eaves. A small four-light transom is placed above the front door. The house is clad in wood shingles. Also original to the property is an eighteenth-century timber-framed barn located to the south of the Conway House and a blacksmith house positioned to the southeast of the house. The Thorndike family built the house and barn and lived and farmed here until 1825. At that time the property was purchased by the Conway family, who owned it until 1916. Today, the property is owned by the Camden-Rockport Historical Society, who added a museum to the grounds in the 1960s. The entire site is open for tours seasonally.
Year Listed: 1969
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