The Greenfield Pote House is located on Wolfe's Neck, a peninsula across the tidal Harraseeket River from the central parts of Freeport.

It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof that slopes down to the first floor in the rear, giving it a saltbox profile.

After complaints were filed by Falmouth residents that he set sail on the Sabbath, Pote decided to move.

In 1765 the house was loaded onto a flatboat, and sailed about 13 miles (21 km) down Casco Bay to this area, where it was then moved on rollers to its present location.

About 1970 it came into the hands of the Smith family, who were dedicated to its preservation, and who donated the land that became Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park.