Wedding Cake House

After a European tour in the 1850s, shipbuilder George W. Bourne of Kennebunk, Maine, was inspired by the Gothic architecture he saw in Milan. Bourne decided to add a piece of this architecture to his own home, and for four years, he hand-carved decorative elements for his house. The result is now known as the “Wedding Cake House” and is now called “the most photographed house in the state of Maine.”

Image: Lantern slide of the “Wedding Cake House” (date unknown). From the Andrew J. Bramlett Collection.