Across Eden Street from the College of the Atlantic rises Cleftstone, a summer house dating to 1881. Built in 1881 and enlarged in 1894, this is now Cleftstone Manor, a hotel with seventeen guest rooms and a long presence on the street. The house is a large 2½-story wood-frame structure set on the west side of Eden Street, directly across from the campus of the College of the Atlantic.
You can see how it runs roughly parallel to the road, its busy roofline pierced by cross gables and gabled dormers. A projecting section at the northwest and a low polygonal tower at the northeast corner give the silhouette a picturesque, varied profile. The main west-facing facade is anchored by a large entrance portico near its center, while the east facade, screened from the road by trees, remains relatively restrained.
Inside, the downstairs public rooms reflect those later alterations, elegantly appointed with Colonial Revival woodwork from the building’s latest period of change. That mix of Shingle, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival elements traces a line from the portico up over the gables and across to the College of the Atlantic opposite.