Thanksgiving at the Nickels - Sortwell House, Wiscasset, Maine

Nickels-Sortwell House

124 Main Street

Wiscasset, Maine

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This historic house, built in 1807 by Capt. William Nickels is a few blocks from the Castle Tucker house built the same year. (I wrote about Castle Tucker recently.) This is a magnificent house, and we couldn't wait to tour it. When Capt. Nickels suffered financial hardship, the house became a hotel, then a summer home for the Sortwell family of Massachusetts. For more information about the house, please see website.

Front entrance and stairs.

I spotted this delightful room before the tour began.

Enlarged so you can see the interior shutters, to block out sun or help keep the room warm.

Front double parlor.

This dining room table is where the Sortwell's had their Thanksgiving dinner, per the magazine picture and article below.

Portraits of Sophia Augusta Foye Sortwell and Alvin Sortwell.

View of Sheepscot River from a room.

Up to 2nd floor, and large window /door with small patio.




I love this bedroom, and that's why there are 4 photos.

Another 2nd floor bedroom.

Third floor


Looking out on Main Street, and Sheepscot River (below).

Third floor bedroom.

Interior shot of the front door.

Sheepscot River, and the popular, Red's Eats (above, to the left and below).

More than a month after the tour, we returned to the area, and the sky was very threatening. I took this picture to show the difference from the first one taken in early September.

We were given a two page write-up about the Sortwell's Thanksgiving dinner, complete with recipes. The print is small and light, but perhaps you'll be able to enlarge it to read.

Google map showing location of the Nickels-Sortwell House, blue center marker, Castle Tucker is the other blue marker.

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Open Doors Lowell, My Favorite Time to Visit the City

For 17 years in May, Lowell, Massachusetts has had a weekend called, Open Doors Lowell. This takes place on Friday evening and then during two time frames on Saturday. This year there were over 30 sites for the public to see, free of charge. These places are not normally open to the public during the year. In May, I saw seven new to me things, and several were offered for the first time. Even though I've gone the past four years, I still haven't seen everything.

My post has photos recently taken, and a few to show what certain things used to look like.

I saw the following:

The 1876  Frederick Ayer Mansion, aka, the Franco American School / orphanage, original building, newly renovated.

The Lowell National Historical Park Trolley Barn, in No. 6 Mill (1871) of the Boott Cotton Mills.

Hamilton Wastewater Gatehouse.

The 1892 Fairburn Building, to see a private collection of Lowell patent medicine memorabilia.

1848 Moody Street Feeder Gatehouse.

1859 Lowell Gas Light Company Building.

Swamp Locks Gatehouse, over the Pawtucket Canal.

The 1876  Frederick Ayer Mansion, aka, the Franco American School / orphanage, original building, newly renovated for offices. For more photos, see my post of July 30, 2018.

http://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2018/07/one-of-most-recognizable-houses-n.html

The Lowell National Historical Park Trolley Barn, in No. 6 Mill (1871) of the Boott Cotton Mills

View of Arthur's Paradise Diner on Bridge Street.

The 1892 Fairburn Building at 10 Kearney Square (corner of Bridge and Merrimack Sts.) We saw a resident's private collection of Lowell patent medicine memorabilia.

1848 Moody Street Feeder Gatehouse. "It regulated the flow of water through the underground Moody Street Feeder connecting the Western Canal to the Merrimack Canal." (Per information flyer for Doors-Open-Lowell.)

Unfortunately, the inside lighting was poor, and there were too many people. 

1859 Lowell Gas Light Company Building

at 22 Shattuck Street

We saw the hallway and a few rooms.

The Hamilton Wastewater Gatehouse, door opened to show the inside, but unfortunately, it hasn't been repaired yet.

All the mills on Jackson St. have been renovated, as shown above, except the gatehouse. Photos from 2014 show how the area looked.

Swamp Locks Gatehouse, over the Pawtucket Canal

Both these pictures were taken from the gatehouse.

We walked through the entire length of the Gatehouse.

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