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Cleftstone

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885: 81: 56: 279:. It is roughly a long, rectangular building, set parallel to the road. Its busy roofline is pierced by a number of cross gables and gabled dormers, with a project section ath the northwest and a large entrance portico roughly in the center of the main (west-facing) facade. A low polygonal tower is located at the northeast corner of the building. The east facade, screened from the road by trees, is relatively undistinguished. 896: 295:, who expanded and altered the property in 1894 and again in 1903. Laura Ellis apparently retained ownership when the couple divorced in 1912. Her heirs sold Cleftstone to Joseph McCaffrey in 1947, shortly before a fire swept through the area, destroying all of the other summer houses in the immediate vicinity. McCaffrey opened the Cleftstone Manor Inn in 1948. 88: 63: 282:
The interior in part reflects the various periods of construction of the building. The downstairs public spaces are elegantly appointed, with Colonial Revival woodwork from its latest period of alteration predominating in the living area and dining room. Remnants of older styles are found elsewhere
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The oldest portion of the building was built c. 1880 for the How family, which included Bar Harbor's major real estate developer of the period, Charles How. Design of this structure is attributed to Pennsylvania architect
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The inn has seventeen guest rooms, a formal dining room, breakfast room, and lounge areas. The property has a swimming pool overlooking
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in the house, including a Queen Anne fireplace mantel in a second-floor bedroom.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Cleftstone is located in Maine
Cleftstone is located in the United States
Bar Harbor, Maine
44°23′36″N 68°13′19″W / 44.39333°N 68.22194°W / 44.39333; -68.22194
Bruce Price
Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
Shingle Style
99001192
Maine State Route 3
Bar Harbor, Maine
Shingle
Queen Anne
Colonial Revival
National Register of Historic Places
College of the Atlantic
Bruce Price
Cincinnati
Frenchman Bay
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hancock County, Maine


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"NRHP nomination for Cleftstone"
"Swimming pool"

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