The McLaughlin House and Garden are a historic house museum and associated specimen garden in South Paris, Maine. The property includes a traditional New England connected farmstead with house, ell, and barn, all of which date to the mid-19th century, and a landscaped garden area that houses more than 500 varieties of flowers. It is one of a small number of such specimen gardens in the state, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The property is owned by a local nonprofit organization, and is open to the public free of charge between May and October. Wikipedia