Built in 1905 by Abbott Fuller Graves to his own design, it is one of only two known examples of the Prairie School of architecture in the state of Maine.

[1] The Graves House is set on the east side of Ocean Avenue at number 86, south of the village center of Kennebunkport and facing west toward the Kennebunk River.

It is a two-story wood-frame structure with a broad shallow-pitch hipped roof, and a white stucco finish.

[2] The house was built in 1905 to a design by the artist Abbott Fuller Graves, who had summered in Kennebunkport since 1891, and built this as a permanent year-round residence.

Graves was clearly influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose first Prairie-style house was built in Kankakee, Illinois just five years earlier.