Therefore, one should be prepared to visit as if they had an appointment for a specific time although the curators may allow other visitors to enter.

The Redington Museum offers a comprehensive view of life in New England and Waterville, Maine during the past two centuries.

There are collections of furniture, accessories, household artifacts, toys, tools, and weapons as well as historical papers and diaries.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, two interior brick chimneys, clapboard siding, and granite foundation.

[5] The museum is housed in a two-story home built in 1814 by pioneer Waterville settler Asa Redington, a veteran of three enlistments in the American Revolutionary War and a member of George Washington's elite Honor Guard.

After the victory against the English, he developed the water rights at Ticonic Falls[6] and with his sons, Samuel and William, established a thriving flour mill on the banks of the Kennebec River.

[citation needed] Fashioned of great hewn timbers, all hand pegged, it still features the original spiral staircase, fireplaces with period woodwork, and floors of wide pumpkin pine.

The newel post in the entrance exhibits the "contractor's peace stone," a small smooth polished stone signifying in Colonial times that the project had been completed to both the owner's and builder's satisfaction.