A Dorchester single-family home with stained glass windows and oak floors that was built 126 years ago on farmland once owned by a Boston shipowner and seafaring captain has hit the market for $1.5 million.

The property at 15 Trescott St., a 3,660-square-foot Victorian designed by a noted architect, is surrounded by three-deckers and nestled between Uphams Corner and Savin Hill. The home comes with a cobblestone driveway leading into the garage, central air conditioning, updated kitchen and baths, as well as a private backyard.

John Verre and Beth Norton bought the 5-bedroom, 3-bath house in 2008 for $675,000. On Father’s Day this year, Norton, who grew up in South Boston and now works as general counsel for the United Federation of Teachers in New York, gifted Verre a history of the home that had been pulled together by the Dorchester Historical Society.

The land was once owned by Captain Ezra H. Baker, who started with a schooner before getting into international trade and starting his own shipping firm, which by 1845 was called Hardy, Baker and Morrill, according to Verre. Morrill Street, behind Trescott, is named for Baker’s partner, Charles Morrill.

Baker primarily lived in South Boston, but he owned a house and a barn that are no longer standing on land that ran from what is now Stoughton Street to East Cottage Street. In 1890, his heirs formed a trust that sought to dispose of the land through house lots.

The 15 Trescott St. house was designed by William Holmes, a well-known architect and builder in Dorchester and Roxbury who was described in a 1898 newspaper obituary as behind a “number of palatial residences in and about Boston.” The Historical Society’s research described to Verre and Norton how the property was bought and sold over the course of 125 years. The single-family home took on boarders at one point; it was in and out of foreclosure; and at another point it was split into a two-family before returning to the single-family set-up.

For a while, too, it was deserted, allowing thieves to take away mantlepieces and copper piping. The owner before Verre and Norton restored the home, building a new chef’s kitchen, redoing the wiring and plumbing, and adding central air conditioning.

Verre and Norton were looking for a Victorian in Dorchester’s Neponset area when they found 15 Trescott in 2008. “We fell in love with it as soon as we walked into the house,” he said.

Verre, who was the principal at the McKinley School and assistant superintendent of schools before becoming a Boston-based educational consultant, met Norton while they were both working in Watertown. Norton, a French horn player and pianist, was a music teacher and he had just finished his tenure at Boston Public Schools and turned to consulting.

Their work on the house focused on the outside. They built an outdoor porch and redesigned the backyard, adding a bluestone patio. The fence was restored last year.

But this past July, they made the decision to move. Their 10-year-old son is a child actor who was invited last fall to join a professional theater group in Portsmouth, NH.

With the pandemic keeping many inside their homes, their parlor became a dance studio. “We know we’re very lucky, and he’s lucky he had the space to do that,” Verre said.

They’re in the process of buying a slightly smaller, and much older, house in the Strawbery Banke area of Portsmouth that was built in 1790. They also own a fixer-upper in the White Mountains.

“Boston has become a very big and busy place and we’re moving in the other direction,” Verre said.

At the open house last weekend, Verre and Norton had a chance to reminisce about the 13 years they’ve spent inside 15 Trescott. Dorchester’s Leslie MacKinnon of Compass is working with them to sell the property.

Verre said he hopes the house remains single-family and doesn’t become three condominiums. “Not everybody wants one, but they are part of the history of Dorchester,” he said. “I just hope that they survive what’s going on, the explosion of people moving into Boston.”