"The house was built by Martin Babbidge of Gotts Island, for Lewis Freeman Gott [c. 1885]. Babbidge built sailboats in the barn and won a number of silver cups racing them. Later Gott added an ell and made an apartment for his daughter. In 1946, Orville Trask bought the house from Gott's heirs. He and his wife Esther raised their five children there…" - The Historic Homes of the Town of Tremont…A perspective in Time, p. 24 - Published by the Tremont Historical Society, July 1998.
