Built prior to 1830
At one time inhabited by a family of Flys.
Built in 1802 by Oakes Sampson
Home, in the early 1920s, to the American Impressionist painter Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin.
Much has been said and written about General Samuel Waldo. War hero. Scoundrel. Promoter of colonial settlement. Opportunist. Above all of these, for our purposes, he was a powerful force in the early settlement of Portland and the area.