Castle Tucker
This fascinating museum at the edge of town, overlooking the river, was built in 1807 to resemble a Scottish manor house. It was then radically added onto and altered by a local cotton trader (yes, a cotton trader) named Richard Tucker who in 1858 transformed the house, adding a rather showy piazza and other additions. Thanks to a reversal of fortune, the house wasn’t renovated again—to the benefit of modern visitors, who can see what life was like for high society in Maine in the mid-19th century. Tucker’s daughter eventually donated the home to New England’s antiquities society, which maintains it today; Castle staff give tours of the manse, which features a wonderful, long staircase and trompe-l’oeil-style plaster that looks remarkably like solid wood. Find it overlooking the river (behind Sarah’s Café).
This fascinating museum at the edge of town, overlooking the river, was built in 1807 to resemble a Scottish manor house. It was then radically added onto and altered by a local cotton trader (yes, a cotton trader) named Richard Tucker who in 1858 transformed the house, adding a rather showy piazza and other additions. Thanks to a reversal of fortune, the house wasn’t renovated again—to the benefit of modern visitors, who can see what life was like for high society in Maine in the mid-19th century. Tucker’s daughter eventually donated the home to New England’s antiquities society, which maintains it today; Castle staff give tours of the manse, which features a wonderful, long staircase and trompe-l’oeil-style plaster that looks remarkably like solid wood. Find it overlooking the river (behind Sarah’s Café).
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