Built for Nathaniel Dyer, a shipbuilder and merchant, the house is unusual as a modest brick home on the Portland peninsula. Other brick houses in Portland from this period were typically more elaborate. The front of the house is laid in Flemish bond, a pattern that alternates the long and short sides of the brick, while the other elevations are English bond, which alternates rows of the long and short sides of the brick. The facade is symmetrical with a central entry. The door is framed by wooden pilasters supporting a projecting piece of molding above a fanlight window. The second-floor windows sit just below the eaves of the side-gabled roof. The house overlooks the Fore River and wharves, an ideal location for someone in the shipping and shipbuilding industries.
Year Listed: 1987
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