The Atherton house, like many houses in Southwest Harbor, was built in one place and then moved to another.
The house was built in 1905 on Maple Lane and moved across Will Herrick's pasture, in 1937, to its present location on Clark Point Road to make room for the new Pemetic High School.
Item 5679, below, a photograph of the newly built Southwest Harbor Primary School, shows, at the very left of the picture, the George Delorin Atherton House in its original location on Maple Lane.
Item 13141, below, shows the building whose construction caused the move of the Atherton house.
