Captain Eldridge House

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Captain Eldridge House

Historic home built in 1820 located in Wells, Maine. Originally built for a sea captain, Captain Eldridge.

12/24/2024

Eldridge Tavern in Wells, Maine in 1924.

12/07/2023

Frosty start… ❄️

09/17/2023

The last couple nights have brought some very pretty skies.

09/12/2023

It’s been a minute. Time to steam some wallpaper off….

05/28/2023

It’s amazing how flowers and trees can be neglected for years and still bloom. Bearded irises on show.

01/22/2023

It’s all about the morning light pouring through the cupola for me. 😍

11/10/2022

It took a couple years … but we finally finished painting the last side of the house. Thanks to a wonderful willing painter for doing this not so fun task. This side alone was 80 hours of labor (first it required him to cut the invasive trees that have in the last few years grown up on this north side of the house so he could even get to it!), then the scraping, repairing, priming & 2 coats of paint. She’s a beauty now.

11/07/2022

I love the afternoon sun in this room.

11/06/2022

The joy of painting a ceiling. (there is none until you are done: sure you haven’t missed a spot, recoated the spots you found you missed, & cleaned up) then…and only then.

11/04/2022

It’s the little things… (that will add up). The house is so ready for use in some areas and a hot mess in so many others. Piece by piece.

11/03/2022

Sometimes you need to do things twice to get it right?! I realized this summer walking thru the house that the ceiling in this room had peeled. I took almost 2 years for my mistake to show but alas… if you’ve been following or look back you’ll see how many of the ceilings had peeling paint. They have to be scraped, the calcimine (a powder-the problem) has to be wiped off, a calcimine recoater (special paint) is applied, then finally the normal ceiling paint goes on. I remember I messed something up with the process on this room but only after it was too late. No surprise it peeled. Today I began to remedy that. I scraped & wiped (with warm running water for a change!) and will apply special paint tomorrow.

10/28/2022

I’m cleaning really… maybe playing just a little too 😉. We’ve had this “box” of keys forever in the house mostly to things long since gone … today I decided to make them into something pretty on the table to enjoy.

Address

Wells, ME
04090

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