5 Facts About EB White's 'Charlotte's Web' Maine Farm On Sale

The Maine farm where author E.B. White wrote the popular children's book "Charlotte’s Web" is on sale for $3.7 million, reports said. The Brooklin home is the place where the author lived until his death in 1985, and includes the barn that was the setting for the beloved book, featuring a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte.

Martha Dischinger, a property listing agent of Down East Properties, said the current owners of the property, Robert and Mary Gallant of Anderson, South Carolina, were ready to sell off their house after having owned it for more than 30 years, reports said.

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Dischinger said Wednesday the 44-acre property retained many historical touches and the Gallants had taken care of the gardens, which were tended by White's wife, the writer Katharine White, before her death.

The Gallants told the Portland (Maine) Press Herald they planned to move to South Carolina full time as they have house there. Among the many things to which the octogenarian couple were habituated to in the historic house were the visits by strangers who dropped by the house to just look, take photos or ask for a tour.

“E.B. White would turn over in his grave if he knew how many people stop here,” Mary told the publication. She added: “But to me, that’s absolutely wonderful that he is so alive to the world.”

Here are some of the facts about the house.

1. The current couple respected the Whites' memory and kept the historical essence of the house intact. They just updated the kitchen and refinished the floors, otherwise leaving the house's character as it was, according to a report.

2. Dischinger said the home has five bedrooms and 4,000 to 5,000 square feet of living space. There is a fireplace in the living room and the dining room features a beamed ceiling. There is a sunroom as well which overlooks the shore, and 2,000 feet of private water frontage, real estate Boston reported.

3. Other structures on the property includes a barn, sheds, a wood room, former outhouses, a greenhouse, a guest house with a bedroom and a kitchenette, along with a small house near the water where White wrote. Along with the gardens, there are three ponds.

4. Every year, the Gallants allowed a Maine school teacher to bring their students to the farm.

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5. The students who came to visit the house would also write "thank-you" letters to the couple. Gallant told the Portland Press Herald about the “hysterical” thank-you notes she got from them. She said: “One of them said, ‘You let us go through your house and you didn’t even make us pay.'" She added: “And one little boy said, ‘I like the house. I like the barn. I like the shore. I hope you like this letter. I done my best.'"