The house at 618 Main Street in Portland was erected in 1807 for Jeremiah Gildersleeve (1781-1857), a ship carpenter and navigator who was a member of the famous Gildersleeve shipbuilding family. He married Lucy Ann Cone in 1804.

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Jeremiah Gildersleeve House (1807)

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