Perched on a coveted Eastern Promenade plot, and constructed at a time when women wore full skirts and beribboned straw hats to the nearby bathhouses, this 1898 Portland farmhouse combines exquisite historic styling — elegantly detailed mouldings, doors, and fireplace surrounds — with tasteful updates in the kitchen and baths.
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“There was the kitchen-dining-living room, all in one but so nicely proportioned and so cannily furnished that it answered all purposes delightfully,” Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote in The First Four Years of the “bright and shining little house” she shared with her husband, Almanzo.
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What could be more quintessentially Maine than living on an island in picturesque Penobscot Bay? How about residing on said island in a cozy-rustic converted boathouse?
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Streamlined styling, energy efficiency, and affordability are wrapped up in this tight building envelope in Biddeford, available as a construction package from Caleb Johnson Architects and Builders.
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No man is an island but in Maine he (or she) can own one. One such landmass currently on offer is Pyne Island on Bremen’s Muscongus Bay.
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“Well, I certainly have seen faraway places. Maybe it is time to find my place by the sea,” Miss Rumphius declares in Barbara Cooney’s beloved children’s book. This quaint Northport cottage, which conjures the Lupine Lady’s place with its weathered shingles, sloping roofline, and aerial water views, makes us want to do the same.
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Dreaming of owning a classic Maine camp but not necessarily of housing your entire extended family under one roof?
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