CORNISH – Built in 1790, the Captain Samuel Boynton house is named for its original owner, a New Hampshire native who fought in the Revolutionary War and was captured by the British and imprisoned at Halifax for six months in 1775. A carpenter and cabinet-maker, Boynton after his death at age 82 was described as “exceedingly irritable but kind-hearted and a good neighbor.”

This stunning, historic, 3,810-square-foot home on seven private acres high above the village stands as Boynton’s legacy, and it is a very fine one, suited both to admirers of antique homes and to those who greatly value contemporary comforts.

The coffered-ceiling, updated kitchen features high-end stainless appliances, glass-door pantries, and wide pine flooring, and opens out to a huge deck overlooking lawns and meadow; also off the kitchen are the library, which opens to the living room through twin arched doors, and half-bath/laundry. The formal dining room has the most handsome of the home’s several decorative fireplaces.

Both “breakfast stairs” and front staircase ascend to the four-bedroom second floor, where the master suite’s bath has an oversized soaking tub, and connects to a second full bath with a shower enclosure. There is a second master suite, with its own sitting room, at the back of the house, and the second front bedroom has an accessory office.

Back downstairs, the original summer kitchen plus bonus room, with separate entrance and parking, present home-business possibilities, such as selling antiques, here just a mile from the center of what Downeast magazine recently celebrated among its 2016 “Best Places to Live in Maine.”

The home at 69 Old High Road, Cornish, is listed for sale at $350,000 by Bill Trask of The Maine Real Estate Network (Standish office).

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For more information or to arrange a private viewing, please contact Bill at 329-2630 or at bill@billsellsmaine.com.

Produced by the Marketing Department of the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Home of the Week is provided at no cost.

Photos by Nicholas LaRiviere, Firefly Aerial Solutions.

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