The museum was founded in 1937, after the building, a handsome 1903 Colonial Revival house, was donated to the town by the White family.

White; militaria and domestic objects; and art from the Houlton POW camp from WWII.

It is a handsome two-story Colonial Revival structure, designed by Kendal, Taylor and Stevens of Boston, Massachusetts, and built in 1903.

It is supported by four Tuscan columns, with matching pilasters on the wall, and has an entablature topped by a denticulated cornice.

Mr. and Mrs. S. L. White donated the stately colonial home, built by Mrs. Marion (Woodbury) MacIntyre after the great fire in 1902, in which to house the historical collections.

Mr. and Mrs. White, in purchasing and donating this fine old colonial home to the Town for use of the Museum, rendered a real service to the Community.