Parson's Bend is a very good, intact example of the simple, transitional Georgian - Federal period homesteads that were prevalent at the turn of the nineteenth century in mid-coast Maine. Situated on a low bluff over the Sheepscot River, one-and-one-half miles southeast of the Puddle Dock settlement in Alna, the home that Jacob Nelson built has changed very little since its was constructed circa 1800. Built neither as a mansion house nor a settlers cabin, the setting of the Nelson homestead farm, with its center-chimney cape, barn, and surrounding fields evokes strongly the landscape that characterized much of inland Lincoln County in the decades after the American Revolution. Parson's Bend was placed in the National Register of Historic Places at the local level of significance as a greatly intact example of a moderate sized rural Mane homestead that also has interesting interior features including board walls with a single coat of early, if not original, paint, a rare front stair configuration, and bit and brace moldings in the front parlor.