April, 2024

April is often rainy, or stormy, or chaotic in Maine - and that’s just the weather.  It’s also stormy and chaotic balancing all of the seasonal projects that have to get done.  Things like awnings on all of the buildings, is it...

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March, 2024

March in Maine is a combination of being cold, then warm - thinking you have plenty of time to get ready for summer - then panicking that it's around the corner and realizing that you have almost made it through another Maine winter as Mother...

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Maine Home & Design-The Remains of the Day

“The Remains of the Day” By Sarah Stebbins  |  July 2015 In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the glitterati gathered in Bar Harbor—Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, Fords, and Astors. The...

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Curbed.com-Norumbega Carriage House

Dreamily Remodeled Gilded-Age Carriage House Asks $3.74M Curbed.com  |  by Spencer Peterson  |  March 6, 2015 “Location: Camden, Maine Price: $3,740,000 By now, the former-carriage-house-as-modern-mansion is a common enough trope in...

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Zillow House of the Week – Norumbega Carriage House

House of the Week: A Carriage House Built for a Castle in Maine Zillow.com  |  by Melissa Allison  |  March 5, 2015 “Sam Rowse isn’t sure how many carriages used to fit in the house where he now lives. The space is...

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The Week – Felsted

Best Properties on the Market  |  This Week: Homes with cinematic history  |   “Deer Isle, Maine Built in 1896, this six-bedroom house was featured in the Mel Gibson film Man Without a Face. The shingle-style cottage by architect...

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Soundings Online – Norumbega Carriage House

“Once a carriage house, it’s now a castle” By Mary R. Drake  |  December 29, 2014  |   While looking for a home on Maine’s premier sailing waters Sam Rowse discovered the Carriage House, a run-down stone castle-like structure...

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Portland Magazine – High Society

By Colin W. Sargent – December 2015 Bar Harbor Bonanza: $6.75 – 120 Schooner Head Road The secret back passage to Acadia National Park is whispered among locals because “that’s the way you can reach Sand Beach without having to...

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Maine Center for Creativity Gala

Portland Press Herald – Society Notebook The Maine Center for Creativity honored The Jackson Laboratory and The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing on November 15, 2014 in Portland.  Kim Swan is joined by colleague Christine...

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Maine Magazine – Stay the Night

Maine Magazine, September 2014  |  Stay the Night  |   “Captain Lindsey House Inn  –  Rockland  – Impeccably decorated rooms pay tribute to the history of the building (like several other notable inns, this was once a sea...

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