Devour the history of the Wedding Cake House in Kennebunk.

With a fresh layer of frosting, it’s for sale for $2.65M.

Story by Colin W. Sargent

1. The first owner of this primrose-yellow mansion with white trim at 104 Summer Street was globe-trotting ship captain George Washington Bourne (1801-1856), of nearby Bourne and Kingsbury Shipyard on the banks of the Kennebunk River. A “fourth-generation shipbuilder” of the Kennebunks, according to the house’s website, George grew up in the manse now known as the Waldo Emerson Inn (1753) at 108 Summer Street.

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