Foster Family Home
The Foster Family Home is a historic farmstead on Sunday River Road in Newry, Maine. The property includes a Greek Revival farmhouse, a barn and stable, and a cemetery in which many Fosters are interred. These improvements are situated near the Sunday River Bridge, a covered bridge spanning the Sunday River, and were developed mainly in the 19th century on land that has been in the Foster family since the early 19th century. The main house consists of two blocks, built by Joel Foster, the first Foster to settle the land. Architectural evidence suggests that both were built in the 1850s, leaving open the question of where Foster's first house was located. The main block is the more northerly of the two; it has a front-facing gable with full pediment, overhanging a two-story porch supported by distinctively cut sawn supports. The southerly block, a two-story structure, has a side-gable configuration. The main block has two wide bays, with the main house entrance in the left bay; the ell is four small bays wide, and has a secondary entrance. which is flanked by shorter sidelight windows than the main entrance, and is topped by a triangular shallow pedimented hood. A -story