Colonel Black Mansion Museum

Colonel Black Mansion Museum is a museum in City of Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine which is located on Black House Drive. Colonel Black Mansion Museum is situated nearby to the public building Old Hancock County Buildings, as well as near Ellsworth Public Library.

Opening hours: May and October Tuesday—Sunday 1:00 PM—4:00 PM and June—September Tuesday—Saturday 10:00 AM—5:00 PM and Sunday 1:00 PM—4:00 PM
Type: Museum
Also known as: “Colonel Black House”, “The Black House Mansion”, and “Woodlawn”
Address: 19 Black House Drive, Ellsworth, ME 04605

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Old Hancock County Buildings and Ellsworth Public Library.

Old Hancock County Buildings

Public building

The Old Hancock County Buildings are a pair of Greek Revival buildings on Court Street, at a triangular intersection with U.S. Route 1 and Maine State Route 172 in Ellsworth, Maine. Old Hancock County Buildings is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Colonel Black Mansion Museum.

Ellsworth Public Library

Library

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The Ellsworth Public Library is the public library serving Ellsworth, Maine. It is located at 20 State Street in the city's central business district in a historically and architecturally significant Federal style house built in 1817, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Ellsworth Public Library is situated 3,000 feet northeast of Colonel Black Mansion Museum.

Hancock County Jail

Prison

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The former Hancock County Jail is located at 40 State Street in Ellsworth, the county seat of Hancock County, Maine, United States. Built in 1885–86, it has a well-appointed living space for the jailer in the front, and a series of cells in the back. Hancock County Jail is situated 3,100 feet northeast of Colonel Black Mansion Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ellsworth and Surry.

Ellsworth

Photo: Steve911b, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ellsworth is a small city in Maine on the Union River. It is the county seat of Hancock County, with a population of about 6500 people. It was settled in 1763 and became a large lumber port and ship building center during the 19th century.

Surry

Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Surry is a small, rural town in Hancock County, in the US state of Maine, located on Blue Hill Bay, about 8 miles southwest of the county seat of Ellsworth, quite near Acadia National Park and adjacent to Blue Hill.

Lamoine Corner

Village

Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lamoine is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The town was named after an early resident, Andre LeMoyne. The spelling shifted slightly over the years. Lamoine Corner is situated 5 miles southeast of Colonel Black Mansion Museum.

Colonel Black Mansion Museum

Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: City of Ellsworth, Hancock County, Down East, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.53608° or 44° 32′ 10″ north

Longitude

-68.43336° or 68° 26′ 0″ west

Elevation

161 feet (49 metres)

Operator

Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations.

Open location code

87PHGHP8+CM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 367795481

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

4961296

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