78 South St., Calais, Maine. County/parish: Washington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 04, 1982. NRIS 82000788.
1 contributing building.
The Thomas Hamilton House is a historic house at 78 South Street in Calais, Maine. Built about 1857, it is a high-style Italianate house, unusual in its sophistication for what was then a remote frontier setting. Thomas Hamilton, the builder, had pretense at grandeur, and his house (lost due to overextended debt) became a local landmark known as "Hamilton's Folly". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88687526