Brick and diamond-paned windows greet you at 33 Ledgelawn Avenue, once home to St. Edward's Convent. Designed by local architect Milton Stratton and built in 1917 in the Jacobethan style, it wears its history plainly: a 2-1/2-story brick massing, three bays wide, with a cross-gable roof formed by a projecting section on the left half of the front facade. That projection is bookended by a large, flat-roofed, two-story bay with a band of three windows across the front and single windows on the angled sides.
Notice the rhythm of the glazing — the first-floor windows have foxed lower sashes topped by diamond-pane transoms; the second-floor windows hold larger diamond panes in a fixed sash, set in stone frames with Tudor arches. The main entrance is slightly recessed in the rightmost front bay; the other front windows are smaller but also feature diamond-paned detailing. This house was important enough to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, and it served as home to the Bar Harbor Historical Society until early 2019.
Follow that same brick and glass rhythm on down the west side of Ledgelawn Avenue, this quiet residential street in the main village.