The historic homes and farmhouses of Steuben provide a glimpse into the town’s heritage, showcasing a range of distinctly New England architectural styles.
You can view the location of the homes on the Google Earth map here.
One of my favorite farmhouses on Dyer Bay Road, built in 1905. Sadly, the barn's foundation slid, detaching from the...
Another house to research, built around 1840 and purchased by the Dutton family some time around 1850-60. This house last...
Placeholder: homestead property of Jonathan Leighton (1792-1865), father to Amesbury and Edwin Leighton (see 428 Rogers Point Road). The original...
Placeholder for photos. Sewell Davis (1845-1925) purchased a 32-acre plot from Charles Haskell on 9 Mar 1878 (149:550) and built...
Guilford P. Cleaves, son of Oliver Cleaves (settled in Steuben around 1820), married Esther [Atwater] of Little River, Nova Scotia,...
The 1861 Lee & Marsh Washington County survey map provided the starting point for researching the home. An “A. Leighton”...
This home sits on one of the original land grants to Samuel Wakefield as lot #30 and was built in...
In 1828, Samuel Wakefield sold the top 25 acres of Lot #30 to Caleb Parritt. This is the approximate boundary...
Whitten Stream Farm sits over the Steuben town line in Township 7, an unorganized township in Hancock County, at 372...
It's challenging to put a specific date on this house since the 12-over-12 windows give the home an older appearance,...
This property history needs supporting research as some sources put the build date of this house prior to 1800. However,...
Asa Burbank Wakefield (1808-1880, son of Samuel Wakefield III) purchased a 54-acre plot from Samuel Parritt (36:458-9) on Feb. 13,...
Nathan Perry (1793-1870) sold off a one-acre plot to Joseph Hutchins for $10 on Aug. 5, 1850, 74:377, which became...
Nathan Perry (1793-1870) acquired this land sometime before 1850. He later sold off a one-acre plot to Joseph Hutchins (Aug....
Lewis Wakefield (1806-1887) married Abigail Watts of Cherryfield on January 4, 1830. As of the 1830 census, he resided in...
Walter E. Church (1856-1936, a shipwright originally from Jonesboro) purchased 30 acres from Josiah Strout on Sept. 4, 1894 (270:154)....
Listed in 2018 as a four-unit apartment building. 3.2 acres built in 1850 There is a quitclaim deed filed in...
Colin Baker's home: The photo shows the Forbes Baker home across the street. Colin Campbell Baker’s House (1830-1896) Colin's grandfather,...
Henry Clay Baker, carriage-maker and brother of Forbes Baker, built this house around 1866. The land was initially settled by...
Circa 1930: Real estate photos are available here and included below. I believe this home was bought at foreclosure in...
On the 1881 survey map, this property is listed under "C.H. True." It is actually George H. True (1850-1915). George...
Housebuilder Lemuel Baker Sawyer (b.1802, d.1890) stayed and lived on the village road. It looks like this house was here...
Lemuel Baker Sawyer (1802-1890) purchased the land for this property from Henry Stevens in May 1858 (122:107). According to census...
It appears that Silas K. Cushman (1850-1930) purchased this land (with significant acreage) from the estate of Alonzo Wakefield on...
In working backwards on the deed history for this property (which changed hands many, many times in the 1900s), there...
The land where the house sits is right on the line between the original settler land grants of 1794: Lot...
Joseph Hutchins (also Hutchings) (1776-1857) and his wife Elizabeth moved to the Steuben area around 1805 from Kittery, Maine. Hutchins...
This property foreclosed and sold at auction in 2019. The interior and exterior structure of the house has been greatly...
The history of this property is difficult to trace. On the 1861 survey map and 1850 census, William N. Nash...
Henry Stevens (1812-1873), son of Jonathan Stevens Jr., and grandson of Jonathan Stevens Sr., was one of the original Steuben...
Ebenezer Downs was granted settler rights in Steuben for 100 acres on lot 23 on the Lothrop Lewis town plan...
Ebenezer Downs was granted settler rights in Steuben for 100 acres on lot 23 on the Lothrop Lewis town plan...
97 Village Road is a charming Victorian-style home built in 1885 by Samuel Dutton, featuring a side-gable (also known as...
Maria Godfrey Moore (1817-1853), daughter of Benjamin Godfrey and Anna Leighton, married Captain Henry D. Moore (1815-1871), son of James...
This home's land was originally part of Jonathan Leighton's Lot #1 on the Lothrop Lewis Plan. In the early 1800s,...
Ichabod Godfrey was granted this property in 1792 as lot #2 on the Lothrop Lewis town plan. The house dates...
Ebenezer Downs was granted settler rights in Steuben for 100 acres on lot 23 on the Lothrop Lewis town plan...
Guilford Parker Stevens (1829-1896) married Mary Shaw Leighton, daughter of Capt. Henry Dyer Leighton, in January 1853. He purchased the...
Handy Leighton sold the land to George Gay in 1843 (55:151). At that time, George, a farmer from Massachusetts, also...
One of the founding settlers of Steuben, Jonathan Stevens, was granted his 100-acre settler's lot (lot #3) in June 1794...
This house sold in 2020 and was estimated to have been built in 1883. Real estate photos can be viewed...
One of the very few Craftsman-style homes you'll see in Washington County, built for Susan Moore. Miss Susan (Susie) Moore...
Zebulon Haskell (1753-1831) lived at 3 Rogers Point Road (across the triangle from 14 Townsley Square, next to Tunk Stream)....
PLACEHOLDER The Noyes grocery store and gas station was located on Village Road near 119 Village Road. The building burned...
This house to the right of the Steuben Congregational Church was built before 1860 by Samuel Parritt. The house burned...
The old Steuben post office was built post-1900 and closed in the 1980s. The postcard below shows the post office...
The old high school located at Townsley Square. The school was decommissioned in the late 1950s.
"The Willows" An afternoon out in a pre-1915 Ford Model T. Alonzo Smith's family sold the property in 1904, and...
In 1858, Samuel Wakefield Cleaves set aside land on his property to create a school (Washington County deed reference 92:134-135)....
The Parish House, 1911 From the original dedication: Situated but a short distance from his old home is the new...
