For sale: Farm, barn that inspired “Charlotte’s Web”

BROOKLIN, MAINE» A 44-acre saltwater farm in Maine where E.B. White penned “Charlotte’s Web” is up for sale for $3.7 million.

The Brooklin home where White lived until his 1985 death includes a barn that was the setting for the beloved children’s book featuring a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. The home dates to the late 1700s. White and his wife, Katharine, bought it in 1933.

Down East Properties listing agent Martha Dischinger says current owners Robert and Mary Gallant, of Anderson, S.C., are ready to sell after more than three decades of ownership.

E.B. White also wrote “Stuart Little,” another children’s book.

Mark Fleming, Yankee Magazine The home where E.B. White lived when he penned the beloved children’s book ‘‘Charlotte's Web.”