You Can Now Own the Charlotte's Web Farm

A piece of Americana is up for sale in Maine: The farm on which EB White lived and used as a setting for Charlotte's Web is on the market for $3.7 million, reports the Portland Press Herald. Owners Mary and Robert Gallant say they're reluctantly selling the 44-acre farm in Brooklin, where they've lived for three decades. White bought the place with his wife, Katharine, in 1933 and lived there until his death in 1985. Aside from modest updates to the kitchen and flooring, the Gallants have mostly kept the place as it was.

One thing prospective buyers might prepare for is regular visitors from fans of White. In fact, the author "would turn over in his grave if he knew how many people stop here," Mary Gallant tells the Portland newspaper. "But to me, that's absolutely wonderful that he is so alive to the world." The realtor handling the sale at Downeast Properties tells the AP that the Gallants have maintained the gardens famously kept by Katharine White. (More EB White stories.)