Philip Leach House

	Philip Leach House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Bog Rd., East Vassalboro, Maine
Coordinates	44°26′54″N 69°36′33″W / 44.44833°N 69.60917°W
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1805
Architect	Eaton, Moses
Architectural style	Federal, Federal Style Cape
NRHP reference No.	83003644
Added to NRHP	October 20, 1983

The Philip Leach House is a historic house on Bog Road in East Vassalboro, Maine. Built about 1805, it is a well-preserved local example of a Federal style Cape house. It is notable for the stencilwork and floor painting in its parlor, which are the work of the itinerant folk art stenciler Moses Eaton Jr. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1]

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The Philip Leach House stands on the west side of the village of East Vassalboro, on the north side of Bog Road just west of the public library. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by sidelight windows. The parlor, located on the left side of the building, has been extensively adorned with stencilwork. The artwork is painted in green, red, and yellow, and includes abstract and floral designs. The original floorboards were also painted, with leaf patterns executed in freehand.^[2]

The house was built about 1805 for Philip Leach, by a lawyer who also served as East Vassalboro's postmaster. The artwork in the parlor was executed, probably by Moses Eaton Jr., not long before he gave up his itinerant artwork and settled down in New Hampshire as a farmer. It was probably executed around 1825, and was covered by wallpaper not long afterward. It was exposed during restoration in the early 1980s.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Philip Leach House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-31.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Philip Leach House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-31.

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