Embden Town House
building in Maine, United States of America
The Embden Town House is a historic civic building at Cross Town Road, near Perkins Road, in Embden, Maine. Built in 1848, it continues to be used for town meetings and other civic functions, although town offices are now located in a more modern facility at 809 Embden Pond Road. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Description and history
The Embden Town House is set in a clearing on the north side of Cross Town Road, just east of its junction with Perkins Road, in Embden, Maine. It is a single-story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof and wooden clapboard and shingle siding. Its main facade, facing southeast, is five bays wide, with a center entry and four twelve-over-eight sash windows with operable shutters. The side gabled elevations have single windows at the center; the western one also has a brick flue. The rear wall is asymmetrical, with a small privy built onto the northwestern corner, and three bays of windows, the center one placed higher than the others. Decorative styling is limited to a simple box cornice.
The interior has seen relatively little alteration despite its many years of civic use.
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