Gooden Grant was a lobsterman who lived and fished out of Head Harbor, the southernmost harbor on the Knox County, Maine island of Isle au Haut. His career lasted over 75 years, from when he started fishing at age nine until he retired at age 84. During this span of time both the fishing industry and the island community experienced a period of great transition. His commodious, well-built and stylish home at a prominent location in Head Harbor attests to his success as a lobsterman, and signifies the historic importance of the local maritime economy. Gooden Grant was also larger than life; his exploits and skills, power and importance have transcended from mere factual biography to the realm of folk legend. Stories of the man are told both on and off the island, and years after his death his home is still known to all as Gooden Grant?s house. Celebrated in song, captured in photographs and profiled in multiple publications, Grant became an iconic Maine lobsterman who embodied the traits of rugged independence that were so important for survival on the Maine coast. This property was placed in the National Register of Historic Places for its significance as the home of a man known both for his professional prowess and as a folk legend. It is also a property that represents the local economic, cultural and social importance of fishing and lobstering on Maine?s outer islands. The period covered in the Registration starts in 1911, when Grant constructed the house on property long owned by his family, and ends in 1961, the year in which he retired from fishing.