07/11/2024
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Castle Tucker
2 Lee Street
Wiscasset
Event Type
Join the party! Celebrate summer at Cocktails at the Castle, Historic
New England’s annual fundraiser for Wiscasset’s own Castle Tucker
on July 11 from 5:00 – 7:30 pm. Help preserve this unique historical
treasure while you bask in the spectacular view of the Sheepscot River
and enjoy delicious Maine hors d’oeuvres from Back River Bistro.
Advance ticket purchase is required. Tickets are $50 per person and
must be pre-purchased at
https://my.historicnewengland.org/20286/cocktails or by calling
207-882-7169.
The evening includes an after-hours look inside one of Maine’s most
fascinating historic houses. Castle Tucker, built in 1807, was the
dream home of Judge Silas Lee and his wife Tempe, who enjoyed an
elegant lifestyle in their unusual new mansion. In 1858, Richard
Tucker, Jr. and his young wife Mollie moved into the house,
immediately turning it into a fashionable Victorian home for their
family of five children, who went on to live extraordinary lives
outside Wiscasset. Hear the stories of this talented family revealed
in the collection of personal letters saved by their granddaughter.
Very little was changed in the house after 1900, so visitors see the
interiors as the Tuckers left them, filled with their furnishings,
belongings and décor, including the 1858 parlor and a kitchen with
four generations of cooking technology still in place where it was
used.