A well-known home that’s been falling apart for years along Route 1 in Searsport burned down on Wednesday night in a fire that was authorized by the town.
The property at 386 East Main St. just sold earlier this month to Robert Lambeth of Stockton Springs, after it was listed for sale for $140,000 .
Lambeth, who has a building company , was authorized by the Searsport Fire Department to set the fire to demolish “what was left of it,” said an official at the fire department on Thursday who declined to give his name but identified himself as the agency’s interim chief…