Samuel Butts House

The Samuel Butts House is a historic colonial-style building in Portland, Maine, United States. Located in Boothby Square, on Fore Street, the building was completed in 1792, when Fore Street was at the shoreline of the Fore River estuary. It is the second-oldest extant building on the Portland peninsula, after the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, which pre-dates it by around six years. It is believed its third storey was added well after the building was completed.
Samuel Butts was a tailor who moved to Portland from Boston in 1784.

History

The building survived the Portland fire of 1866.
A 22-room hotel occupied the building in the first half of the 20th century.
From 1974 to 1981 The Hollow Reed restaurant occupied the storefront.