Sen. John Holmes House

The Sen. John Holmes House is a historic house on Main Street in Alfred, Maine. Also known as the Bow and Arrow house for a distinctive balustrade motif it once sported, it was built in 1802 for United States Senator John Holmes, one of western Maine's leading politicians of the period. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The Holmes house is located on the west side of Main Street at the northern end of Alfred Village. It is a two-story wood frame structure with a hip roof and clapboard siding. The roof was originally encircled by a balustrade that included a bow and arrow motif, but that has since been removed. The house has a number of features that are unusual for the location and period, including a two-story wraparound porch, supported by a colonnade of slender columns. The five-bay front facade faces east, and is symmetrically arranged, with the main entrance centered in an enclosed vestibule, above which is a balcony accessed by a doorway on the second floor. The first floor interior features high-quality Federal period woodwork. The house originally had an enclosed court. The kitchen, which held a fireplace with ovens and a copper vat for water, has been removed. An L-shaped addition has been added to the northwest section of the house.

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