Built at the end of the eighteenth century, the John Dunlap House is a large Federal-style house with a side-gabled roof, two large internal brick chimneys, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The two-story dwelling has a central entrance and a partially enclosed portico decorated with an entablature and cornice supported by a pair of fluted Ionic columns. The entry is framed by sidelights and a transom. Dunlap was the son of Brunswick's first minister. He made a considerable fortune within the fur, lumber, and shipping trades. During the 1790s, Dunlap served as chairman of the building committee for Bowdoin College and arranged for the construction of the first building on campus: Massachusetts Hall. Young housewrights Aaron and Samuel Melcher, brothers who eventually built many prominent dwellings in the community, were commissioned to build the Dunlap House in 1798. Construction was completed around 1800. They later added the gabled pediment and columned portico in the 1830s. The house was constructed on a hill near Maine Street and had a view of the town and the Androscoggin River falls.
Year Listed: 1979
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