The second family to flourish at 366 Spring Street restored this magnificent Italianate/Greek Revival home one room at a time.

Story by Colin W. Sargent

West Indies shipping merchant Jonathan Hartwell Fletcher was born in Westford, Massachusetts in 1821. After dabbling in blacksmithery, he moved to Portland and took a position as a clerk in his sister’s husband’s family business, Smith & Hersey. Wresting control of the firm, he renamed it Fletcher & Co. and began operations as an import/export firm.

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