A Cape form (a side-gabled house with a central chimney around which interior rooms are located), the Salome Sellers House is located on Sunset Road. The original part of the house is the small side wing, which dates to the late eighteenth-century, while the Cape part of the house was built later. The dwelling retains original double-hung windows with small panes of glass and a central door surmounted by a four-pane transom. The post-and-beam structure sits on a fieldstone foundation, and is clapboard sided with a cedar-shingled roof. The original owner, Joseph Sellers, completed most of the construction himself, and the home remained in the same family for roughly 140 years. His wife, Salome Sellers lived to the age of 108 while residing in the house and was a revered resident of Deer Isle. In the 1960s, the Deer Isle-Stonington Historical Society purchased the property. It now operates as a house museum.
Year Listed: 1982
For more information: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail?assetID=5b3a5514-6bbc-4fc7-bd3e-df6a07553c43