Barncastle
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"Barncastle", also known as Kline Cottage, is one of the earliest and largest summer cottages in Blue Hill, Maine
and remains one of its most visible and idiosyncratic. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
and originally called "Ideal Lodge" after the opera company founded by its builder, Effie Hinckley Ober, the house was designed by Blue Hill native and noted Boston architect George Asa Clough in 1884.
Entirely engulfing a smaller Cape Cod
-style house owned by Effie's mother, a descendant of early Blue Hill settlers, Clough's design derived from notable buildings of his more famous contemporaries: the massing of the main block was based on a cottage by W.R. Emerson, and the landmark arch-and-turret link between kitchen wing and carriage barn strongly recalls familiar works by McKim, Mead and White at Narragansett Pier and Mamaroneck
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Originally painted barn red with cream trim like its neighbor, (Parker House (Blue Hill, Maine), also remodeled by Clough and also on the National Register), "Barncastle" is a fitting and graceful name for this rambling, gambrel-roofed shingle-style cottage.
It was listed on the National Register in 1980.
Blue Hill, Maine
Blue Hill is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,390 at the 2000 census. It is home to Blue Hill Memorial Hospital, George Stevens Academy, the now-closed Liberty School, New Surry Theatre, Kneisel Hall, Bagaduce Music Lending Library, the Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club...
and remains one of its most visible and idiosyncratic. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
and originally called "Ideal Lodge" after the opera company founded by its builder, Effie Hinckley Ober, the house was designed by Blue Hill native and noted Boston architect George Asa Clough in 1884.
Entirely engulfing a smaller Cape Cod
Cape Cod
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...
-style house owned by Effie's mother, a descendant of early Blue Hill settlers, Clough's design derived from notable buildings of his more famous contemporaries: the massing of the main block was based on a cottage by W.R. Emerson, and the landmark arch-and-turret link between kitchen wing and carriage barn strongly recalls familiar works by McKim, Mead and White at Narragansett Pier and Mamaroneck
Mamaroneck (village), New York
Mamaroneck is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 18,929 at the 2010 census. It is located partially within the town of Mamaroneck and partially within the town of Rye. The portion in Rye is unofficially called "Rye Neck"...
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Originally painted barn red with cream trim like its neighbor, (Parker House (Blue Hill, Maine), also remodeled by Clough and also on the National Register), "Barncastle" is a fitting and graceful name for this rambling, gambrel-roofed shingle-style cottage.
It was listed on the National Register in 1980.