Gerrish Warehouse

The Gerrish Warehouse was located on the southern shore of Kittery Point, off Pepperrell Road (Maine State Route 103) just beyond the cemetery of the First Congregational Church. The building was a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable roof, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation, and measured about 35 by 45 feet (11 m × 14 m). It had large doors at its northern and southern facades, the south (water-facing) ones of simple boards, those facing north paneled. It had sash windows, with interior shutters that slid into place. Its floors consisted of plain floorboards, with access to the upper level gained by ladder stairs.^[2]

The warehouse was built c. 1710, and was one part of the large shipping empire of the Pepperrell family, whose most famous member was Sir William Pepperrell, who led colonial military forces in the successful 1745 Siege of Louisbourg and was knighted for this success. Pepperrell's descendants, Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War, had their properties seized by the state and sold off. In 1797 the warehouse came into the hands of Robert Follett, whose daughter married William Thompson Gerrish. The Gerrishes converted the building into a ship chandlery, finally selling it to the Maine Maritime Museum in 1976.^[2] Although the museum developed plans to move the building to a more secure location (its foundation was being undermined by tidal erosion), these plans were not realized, and the building was subsequently demolished; its contents remain at the museum's location in Bath.

• National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Maine