The Nutting Homestead is an example of the adaptability of a rural Maine farmstead which evolved through the late-eighteenth century to the early-nineteenth century. Initially constructed as a cape with a later, grand attached Federal period house, the farm grew to include a barn, carriage house, and corn crib. The cape, built by Nathan Nutting shortly after moving to Otisfield in 1796, is a one-story dwelling that sits on a granite foundation with clapboards siding, but has lost its original central entry. Like the cape, the two-story Federal-style house sits on a granite foundation with clapboard siding. More elaborate than the earlier part of the house, it has a prominent central entryway flanked by sidelights and a louvred fan that are framed by two pilasters that support a horizontal pediment featuring a Doric entablature. This addition was built by Nathan Nutting, Jr. in 1820. Nathan, Jr. was a master builder who designed and built the Bell Hill Meeting House in Otisfield and multiple churches in Casco and Westbrook, Maine. The house remained in the family for many generations.
Year Listed: 1974
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