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NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES: MANNING HOUSE, SOUTH CASCO |
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Built in 1804 & listed on the National Register in April 1993. Located on the Cape Road, off of Route 302. |
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The Manning House
was named after its first owner, Richard Manning—an uncle of American
author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Manning House is almost identical to
the nearby Hawthorne House, except for the roof—the Manning was built
with a hip roof, while the Hawthorne was constructed with a Georgian
roof. In 1871, Andrew & Mary Ann (Dingley) Libby resided in the
Manning House. In the early 1900s, J. Frank & Grace E. (Watkins) Welch
took boarders at the Manning House. Grace is said to have tired of all
the comments made about the beautiful antiques in the Manning House
and supposedly took a wheelbarrow full of the antiques and buried them
in the nearby Manning Ballfield. The Manning House is privately
owned.
Raymond-Casco Historical Society, PO Box 1055, Raymond, ME 04071
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