The McLellan-Sweat Mansion (or The McLellan House) is a historic house museum at 111 High Street in Portland

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...

, Maine

Maine

Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

. It forms the rear component of the Portland Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art

The Portland Museum of Art is an art museum in Portland, Maine. Founded as the Portland Society of Art in 1882, it is located in the downtown area known as The Arts District, and is the largest and oldest public art institution in the U.S...

 complex.

Constructed in 1800-1801 for shipping

Shipping

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 magnate

Magnate

Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities...

 Major Hugh McLellan, the brick mansion was designed by John Kimball, Sr. (1758-1831), an architect/housewright originally from Ipswich

Ipswich, Massachusetts

Ipswich is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 12,987 at the 2000 census. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. The cost was $20,000. After a change of owners, the property was purchased in 1880 by Lorenzo De Medici Sweat

Lorenzo De Medici Sweat

Lorenzo De Medici Sweat was a U.S. Representative from Maine.He was born in Parsonsfield, Maine, where he attended Parsonsfield Seminary, a Freewill Baptist school. Sweat then attended Bowdoin College, from where he graduated in 1837. He graduated from Harvard University in 1840, having studied...

. In 1908, his widow bequeathed it to the Portland Society of Art (now Portland Museum of Art). The L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries

L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries

The L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries are a series of art galleries that are part of Portland Museum of Art, which is located in the Arts District at Portland, Maine.-History:...

, designed by 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...

, were added in 1911 behind the house, to which they connected by corridor.

In 1957, two mantelpieces salvaged from the 1805 Commodore Edward Preble

Edward Preble

Edward Preble was a United States naval officer.-Early life and Revolutionary War:Preble was born at Falmouth, Eastern Massachusetts, now Portland, Maine, 15 August 1761, the son of Gen. Jedidiah Preble. As a boy, his home was destroyed in the burning of Falmouth by British Naval Commander Henry...

 House, designed by Alexander Parris

Alexander Parris

Alexander Parris was a prominent American architect-engineer. Beginning as a housewright, he evolved into an architect whose work transitioned from Federal style architecture to the later Greek Revival. Parris taught Ammi B. Young, and was among the group of architects influential in founding what...

, replaced originals lost during a Greek Revival remodeling of the drawing and dining rooms. In 1970, the house was added to the National Historic Register as a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

. The Charles Shipman Payson Building by Henry N. Cobb

Henry N. Cobb

Henry N. Cobb is an American architect and founding partner with I.M. Pei of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City....

 of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is an architectural firm that was founded in 1955 by I. M. Pei as I. M. Pei & Associates, in 1966 called I. M. Pei & Partners, and received its current name and organization in 1989. The founders were I. M. Pei, Henry N. Cobb, and Eason H. Leonard. Pei and Leonard retired...

 opened in 1983, extending the length of the museum to its new entrance on Congress Square Plaza. After an extensive restoration, The McLellan House reopened in 2002.

External links

• The McLellan House, Portland Museum of Art
• Portland Museum of Art