Frank Mathews house

Frank Mathews house

Frank B. Mathews house (currently 47 High Street) Mathews built the house on High Street in 1893.The house is described as Queen Anne with clapboard and shingle siding, octagonal turret, roof balustrade, classic veranda with decorative woodwork. Frank was the son of Sanford Mathews, one of the three brothers who, in 1854, started Mathews Brothers window and door manufacturing business. He ran the business after his father's (Sanford Hills Mathews) death in 1896. Frank Bowdoin Mathews biographical information: Birth: Oct. 8, 1863 Death: Nov. 29, 1898 Burial: Grove Cemetery, Belfast, Waldo County, Maine Father: Sanford H. Mathews Mother: Clarrie S. Mathews Spouse: Adda Louise Richmond Morey (1860 - 1951) Education: High School 1881 A.B. Univ. of Rochester 1885 Ph.G. Mass. College of Pharmacy 1888 During the summer of 1891, through the influence of Congressman Seth Llewellyn Milliken, the Squadron of Evolution of the United States Navy, famous as the White Squadron, was ordered to Belfast. A public meeting, held on August 30, made provision for a reception and other entertainments to be given to the officers. Two committees were chosen, one on subscriptions, consisting of Dr. Gilman Pingree Lombard, and Messrs. Frank Bowdoin Mathews and James Sumner Harriman, and one on arrangements composed of Edward Johnson, Esq., Colonel Horace Eugene McDonald, and Dr. Horatio Huntington Johnson, Jr. Mathews purchased Captain Robert Coombs's skating rink in August 1892 Sash, blind, and door factories. The oldest of these in Belfast is that of Mathews Bros. established in 1854, in the old foundry building, by Spencer Walcott Mathews. His brothers, Noah Merrill and Sanford Hills Mathews, were afterwards associated with him. Their business was suspended by the great fire of 1873, but in seventy days the building on Cross Street was ready for work. Subsequent additions greatly enlarged its capacity. A stock company was formed in 1890. The business was carried on by Frank Bowdoin, son of Sanford Hills Mathews, after the death of the latter in 1896, until his own death in 1898. The management then devolved upon the women of the family, who determined to continue it. Thus, in 1899, the following officers were elected: Mrs. Clara Starrett Mathews, president; Mrs. Addie Richmond Mathews, vice-president; Miss Maud Eliza Mathews, treasurer; Maud Eliza Mathews, Addie Richmond Mathews, and Orlando Ephraim Frost, board of directors. Mr. Frost, the superintendent, came to Belfast in 1898, and gradually assumed control of the business. He has enlarged the plant and increased its output.