The House at Lobster Cove

Identifier:
13999  
Object ID:
001.150.003
Catalog:
Library
Title:
The House at Lobster Cove
Subject:
Other, Architectural photographs
Description:
This videotape is a history of the home "Cragsyde", aka Kragsyde, a design of Robert Swain Peabody. The video includes historic photographs and commentary, by Wheaton Arnold Holden.

This home was built at Manchester-by-the Sea, Massachusetts in 1884 for George Nixon Black, the same owner of Woodlawn House, Ellsworth, Maine. The house was torn down in 1929. The house was also reproduced during the years 2005-6, using original plans, by a family on Swans Island.
Other house in video is "La Tourelle", built ca 1930, destroyed 1947.

See Roz Rea for more information about this home and tape - 01/30/2013
Creator:
Holden, Wheaton Arnold
Publisher:
Northeastern University
Date:
1980
Collection:
Audio Visual History Collection

Citation

Holden, Wheaton Arnold, “The House at Lobster Cove,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed February 2, 2025, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/13633.Item 13999

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