{"id":22044,"date":"2022-08-19T11:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22044"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:06:42","slug":"mad-about-saffron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/mad-about-saffron\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad About Saffron"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23ededed&#038;d=sept22_flipbook_final&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;pageNumber=96&#038;u=portlandmagazine\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Just sprinkle in a Revolutionary War hero, and you\u2019ve got one helluva saltbox<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Colin W. Sargent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ooking for the oldest house in <\/span><strong>Kennebunk<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? It depends on which cocktail party you\u2019ve been to most recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1751, architect\/builder <\/span><strong>James Hubbard<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (we called them joiners then) built this classic manse at <\/span><b>56 <\/b><strong>Summer Street<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The land his saltbox surveyed included 27 acres near the <\/span><strong>Kennebunk River<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where shipyards and mansions would one day earn this stretch the nickname <\/span><strong>Captain\u2019s Row<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By 1775 he\u2019d become so influential that on October 3, \u201cour records state [that] a petition addressed to the general court\u2026and signed by <\/span><strong>Col. Ephraim Doolittle<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asked that Hubbard, along with certain other officers, be commissioned, and on the following day the petition was read and committed by the <\/span><strong>General Court<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and James Hubbard officially became a captain in Colonel Doolittle\u2019s regiment,\u201d says Leanne Hayden, collections curator at the <\/span><strong>Brick Store Museum<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><strong>Kennebunk<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likely he was ruffled by the high taxes the King was exacting in the <\/span><strong>Kennebunks<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and beyond. (Some of us know the feeling.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-22050\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/saffron-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"saffron\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/saffron-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/saffron-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/saffron-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/saffron-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/saffron-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/saffron.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just sprinkle in a Revolutionary War hero, and you\u2019ve got one helluva saltbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,224],"tags":[1205],"class_list":["post-22044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-talking-walls","tag-september-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22062,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22044\/revisions\/22062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}