The house three doors down from Stephen King’s home in Bangor is for sale for less than $1 million.
The five bedroom, four bathroom home on West Broadway has 5,400 square feet of living space and sits on roughly 1.5 acres. The house entered the market last weekend with an asking price of $940,000, said Grace Nash of Realty of Maine, the listing agent for the property.
Known locally as the Millard E. Mudgett House, the estate was built in 1896 and first owned by Mudgett, who was a partner in J.P. Bass and Company, which published both the Bangor Daily Commercial and the Bangor Weekly Commercial, according to the National Register of Historic Places.
The portion of West Broadway where this home sits has long held some of the city’s grandest estates, usually built and owned by Bangor’s most prominent and successful residents.
Homes in this neighborhood don’t change hands frequently, Nash said. No homes within that stretch of West Broadway sold last year and only two properties — one of which was this house — sold in 2023, she said.
The home was designed by architect Wilfred Mansur, who was known for adding wraparound porches and turrets to houses, which can be found on several homes in that historical neighborhood.
Mansur also designed several of Bangor’s most prominent buildings between 1882 and 1915, including the Nichols Block on Exchange Street, three buildings on Central Street, and Hose House No. 5 on State Street, a former Bangor Fire Department station that now houses the Hose 5 Fire Museum.
The modern eat-in kitchen, complete with an eight-burner stove, quartz counters and a butler’s pantry, is perhaps the estate’s most striking room, Nash said.
The master bedroom has a walk-in closet, curved windows, fireplace and ensuite bathroom, Nash said.
The estate’s other charming historical elements in the home include detailed crown molding, pocket doors, built-in bookcases, a second servants’ staircase and six fireplaces, Nash said.
The homes’ basement holds another full bathroom and wine cellar.
The home sits on a double lot that abuts the Mansfield Sports Complex, which gives it an expansive backyard, Nash said. There’s also a detached two-car garage on the property.
While the home has been maintained well and modern amenities, such as heat pumps and natural gas, have been installed, Nash said homes of this age and scale require a buyer who knows what it takes to care for older buildings.
“These big old houses are grand and a lot of them have had so many nice updates done, but they’re still old houses,” Nash said. “They require a little extra care, attention and time, so you have to have somebody who can appreciate that and be willing to take that project on.”
Nash anticipates the future buyer will be a professional, perhaps someone who works in a nearby hospital, who enjoys entertaining or has a family that can fill the home’s several bedrooms. The ideal buyer would also be someone who wants to be close to downtown Bangor and appreciates a historic property “with modern day conveniences,” Nash said.
The home is now owned by a family from Georgia who bought it more than two years ago as a second home. The owners planned to eventually live in the Bangor home full-time, “but life changed so they’ve decided to sell and go in a different direction, but they’re very sad to leave this house,” Nash said.
