Located south of Durham Center, the Nathaniel Osgood House is a three-story timber frame farmhouse with a hipped roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. The symmetrical facade has a central entryway with pilasters supporting a triangular pediment that encloses a six-panel door and transom. The Osgood House is a nicely preserved example of an eighteenth-century rural dwelling in Maine. According to local lore, Nathaniel and his brother Aaron moved to Durham from Deerfield, New Hampshire, after leaving their hometown of Amesbury, Massachusetts, in the early 1780s. Nathaniel served in a regiment led by Colonel O. Israel Bagley during the Revolutionary War. Bagley became the proprietor of Royalsborough, later named Durham. It is believed that the Colonel sold lots in Royalsborough to the men who served under him. Early histories of the town suggest that Osgood purchased the land from Bagley in 1779.
Year Listed: 1985
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