Boston architect Guy Lowell designed Eegonos in 1910 on Eden Street, and you're looking at one of the rare summer houses to survive Bar Harbor's 1947 fire. Built in 1910 to a design by Boston architect Guy Lowell, this is one of the small number of summer houses that escaped Bar Harbor’s devastating 1947 fire. Its presence here on the shore of Frenchman Bay, about three miles north of Bar Harbor’s center, feels deliberate and restrained.
Take in the H-shaped, 2½-story form: a central block flanked by projecting sections, the masonry walls finished in stucco and crowned by a red tile roof. The southeastern section offers a single-story porch supported by paired Ionic columns that run across much of its width, a quiet announcement of the Beaux Arts and Mediterranean Revival influences that shape the house. Note the hipped roofs on the side sections and the side-gable roof of the central block, pierced by four hip-roof dormers on both the land and ocean sides.
Inside, the house is elegantly appointed — a marble-floored vestibule and finely finished fireplaces hint at that refinement. Paired Ionic columns hold up the porch below a red tile roof, and inside a marble-floored vestibule still waits for you to imagine its fireplaces glowing.