A LITTLE over a mile from the village and well up the mountain, this house commands a magnificent view of Camden Harbor and Penobscot Bay. As the large porch area shown on the plan indicates, life out-of-doors and a full enjoyment of this picturesque section of the Maine coast were the principal factors in the design of the house. The drive reaches the house at the northeast end, where there are a porte-cochère and broad porch over which the second story is carried. Along the southeast side runs a broad terrace, and on this side are the large library, well-protected loggia, and cozy den, affording ample room for the occasional stormy days of the summer. At the southern end of the terrace is another broad porch so placed as to insure complete privacy, while over this is placed a little loggia, connected with one of the chambers.
With the exception of a level lawn to the south of the house, the surroundings have been left practically in their natural condition, great ledges of rock cropping out here and there, with a scraggly growth, principally of evergreens, which completely screens the lower part of the house from the driveway, which in its approach to the house passes the southeast side.
The first story is clap-boarded, and above the finish is a rough pebble-dash of grayish white. It is only in the two gables which mark the ends of the unbroken ridge line of the roof that the plain plastered surface is broken by timber-work. All the exterior woodwork is stained a rich reddish brown. The exterior wood finish is carried clear to the ground on all sides, masonry appearing only in the chimneys, which are of small stones gathered from the surrounding ledges.
