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In a popular book about historically and architecturally outstanding residences on the East Coast, Elise Lathrop wrote in 1937 of Kennebunk, Maine, praising its "many old houses, some modernized, others almost as when built." (1) Several of those she sought out were located on Summer Street, which links the villages of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. More than forty well-preserved houses dating from the colonial period into the twentieth century line the section of Summer Street that extends from the First Parish Church (Pl. II) to the area known as Kennebunk Landing, the center of the nineteenth-century shipbuilding industry. These stylish houses represent the social and ...