For sale: The farm that inspired 'Charlotte's Web'

If a complimentary spider were to write the real estate listing for this saltwater farm in Maine, it might spin the following: "This is some property! Terrific! Radiant! Humble!"

Those, of course, are the spiderweb-woven compliments that Charlotte heaped on Wilbur the pig in E.B. White's beloved classic, "Charlotte's Web."

The 44-acre farm in Brooklin, Maine, where White lived once lived is now up for sale for $3.7 million. The property includes the barn that was the setting for "Charlotte's Web."

The home dates to the late 1700s. White and his wife, Katharine, bought it in 1933, and White lived there until his death in 1985.

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.

She said the property retains many historical touches and the owners maintained the gardens tended by Katharine White before her death.

White also wrote the childhood favorites "Stuart Little" and "The Trumpet of the Swan."