Jonathan Fisher House

Jonathan Fisher was born in New Braintree, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, before moving to Blue Hill in 1796 to take up a new ministry. At that time he began construction of a small two-room house, which he reported moving into in 1797, still unfinished.[2] In 1814 he built the current house, to which the older house was joined as an ell.[3] The older house was demolished in 1896 by Fisher's grandchildren, who replaced it with a two-story addition. After the property was taken over by Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. in the 1950s, a second addition was added to accommodate office and exhibition space. The property's outbuildings all decayed and were demolished over time; the last to go was the 1790s barn, which was taken down in the 1990s.[2]

The Fisher House is set on the southeast side of Mines Road (Maine State Route 176), facing northwest on a largely level lot. The main house is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, large central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The main facade is three bays wide, which are evenly spaced but set off to the left. A plain entablature encircles the house below the roof, and the main entry, located in the lower left bay, is sheltered by an enclosed hip-roofed vestibule. The interior follows a central-chimney plan, with two rooms on the first floor and two on the second, set on either side of the chimney. The building has retained interior finishes, as well as Fisher family possessions.[3]

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine