John Calvin Stevens House is an historic house in the West End

West End (Portland, Maine)

The West End is a downtown neighborhood in Portland, Maine. It is located on the western side of Portland's peninsula primarily on Bramhall Hill and is noted for its architecture and history. The neighborhood is home to a large number of historic homes and parks and, in 2010, it was called "one of...

 neighborhood of Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

. Built in 1884, it was the home of architect John Calvin Stevens

John Calvin Stevens

John Calvin Stevens was an American architect who worked in two related styles — the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style, which dominated national domestic architecture for the first half of the 20th century...

 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1973.
Stevens and his architectural partner, Albert Winslow Cobb, included illustrations of the house in their Shingle Style survey, Examples of American Domestic Architecture (1889).

The house has been altered, with the main entrance moved from the west facade (facing Bowdoin Street) to the center of the south facade. The original entrance porch has been enclosed, and the balustrade above it removed. The house's shingles were recently painted white.