“By August (1893) the post office was in its new quarters, and another business had been established in its former location in Arundel Square. Fred Bishop Tuck, a native of Kingston, New Hampshire, had been buying and selling antiques in New England since 1885. He had been looking for a place to open a shop where there was a clientele with an appreciation for all things colonial and the money to buy them. Kennebunkport’s summer visitors included such people. Another Kennebunkport advantage was the possibility of stocking his shop with locally owned, unwanted family heirlooms. There were such goods to be ferreted out from the parlors, attics, and barns of the town’s old houses. Just that summer an advertisement in The Open Sea offered for sale at Bonser’s Bazaar the 1779 grandfather clock of Phineas Stevens, which had descended to his grandson Charles C. Stevens. Tuck, like so many others who discovered Kennebunkport, ended up adopting it as his home and would claim that he had opened the first antiques shop in Maine.”
Joyce Butler in “Kennebunkport, The Evolution of an American Town”