Description: "The Spahr house, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Lee Spahr of Haverford, Pa., and built for them by R. M. Norwood in 1932, is on a site where formerly two summer hotels have stood, both being destroyed by fire. The first one was built by Sans Stanley about 1875 and was very popular as a summer hotel and patronized by many Harvard professors. It was burned July 10, 1884. Mr. Stanley built another and larger hotel on the same site and this was burned March 18, 1927. A few years later the land was sold to Mr. Spahr, who also owns one of the small cottages nearby which is used as a guest house." -- “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 192 – 193 [show more]
Description: The Rowse family bought the land for their cottage in Southwest Harbor in 1944 and built their cottage on the Back Shore near the Claremont Hotel. The cottage rented for the season in 1960 for $1600. The Claremont Hotel acquired the property c. 1998. In 1973 the cottage was called "Seawood" and in 1977 it was known as "Shore Cottage."
Description: Mount Desert has been one of America's favorite tourist destinations for over 150 years. As early as the 1840s, the lush landscape of this island on the Maine coast attracted artists and writers, who soon made Mount Desert's beauty famous with their paintings and publications. The stream of tourists that began traveling to the island after the Civil War prompted a building boom of cottages, hotels, and various buildings in Bar Harbor and other towns in the vicinity. Fred Savage (1861–1924) was the most influential architect in the development of Mount Desert and northeastern Maine, designing over three hundred buildings. Richly illustrated with archival drawings, photographs, and newly commissioned color photography, Maine Cottages presents all of Savage's most important works while placing the life and career of this architect in the larger context of Mount Desert Island. [show more]
Description: "Fox Dens, the cottage owned by Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Rand, was among the earliest to be built at the Mill Dam in 1884." Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 165 - 1938. “Fox Dens” was the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lathrop Rand. It was listed in the 1931 Town Directory as - Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Rand of Boston - "Fox Dens", Back Shore.
Description: William Cram apparently sold his house to Schuyler Clark and land to Emily S. Rogers. Schuyler moved the cottage to the High Road. In 1938 the Cram cottage on High Road belonged to the heirs of Professor Kropman of Providence, Rhode Island. The house was bought by Elmer L. (1920-2010) and Prudence M. (Benson) Beal in 1945 and remained theirs until at least 2010.
Description: The cabin was built by the CCC on Benjamin Conley Worcester's land. Later, the land and cabin reverted to him and the cabin became his house. Work began on the cabin on Sept. 20, 1933 and Lt. Harris moved into the cabin on Oct. 31, 1933.