Entire Maine Village With Church and Multiple Homes On Market for $6 Million

If you would like to own a virtual Maine village, Tuthill is looking for offers – virtual in that all it really lacks is its own ZIP code.

The site includes a Greek revival house, an 1800s-era church, several antique barns, multi-bay garages and six additional homes.

Twenty-one buildings and 40 acres in Pittston, Maine for $6 million.

Realtor.com calls it a “picturesque hamlet.”

The oddity of the real estate – a virtual village in private hands within a town – is triggering press coverage in news outlets far and wide.

“The property would make a great wedding venue, event center, gathering place, or even a setup for a B&B,” listing agent Anna Boucher of Summit Real Estate, who owns the property with her husband, Nathan Tuttle, told Realtor writer Kelly Speed.

Despite the village’s “antique” appearance, Tuthill – Tut Hill in some spellings – has actually only existed in its current form for about 40 years.

The bulk of the properties now within its borders were moved from other places to form the development.

“They were brought in or built here in the ’80s,” Boucher explained. “There are only three original buildings: the main house, the church, and the corner home. All of the other structures were moved here from  central Maine.”

The antique-village concept was the brainchild of her father-in-law, Ken Tuttle, who started out buying antiques, a hobby that then led him to collect old houses.

Tuttle always wanted to own a property like Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, a “living museum” designed to look like an 1830s New England town.

“He always dreamed of owning a Sturbridge Village but in Maine,” Boucher said. “Ken didn’t set out specifically to do this venture. It sort of just fell into his lap.

“His first gig was actually hanging wallpaper and painting, and then he saw these antique buildings and just gravitated toward them,” she said. “His wallpapering segued into his love of antiques, and that passion rolled into a love of old homes.”

When he was starting out, Tuttle began looking at Federal-style homes that were in bad shape, on the verge of being torn down.

“When he heard of a Federal-style home to be demolished, he wanted to save it, so he brokered a deal and ran with it,” she said.

Over the years, he kept adding to his collection, saving buildings originally slated for demolition. The compound also features newer structures.

The primary four-bedroom residence was an old sea captain’s house from 1840 that was recently renovated.