William Ralph Emerson designed Redwood in 1879 on Barberry Lane, the first Shingle style house you'll find in Bar Harbor. Designed by William Ralph Emerson and built in 1879, this was the first Shingle style house built in Bar Harbor and is noted as one of the oldest of the style in the nation; it was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Take in its 2½-story wood-frame presence, set on a fieldstone foundation, with a roughly cruciform plan that gives the house a strong, sculpted silhouette.
The long north–south axis organizes the massing, with roughly centered projections to the east, facing the water, and to the west, facing the street. To the west you’ll see a gabled projection with a second-floor chamber set above a porte-cochere that shelters the main entrance; beside it a tall two-story window rises to a small gabled peak, and an elaborately decorated brick Queen Anne style chimney stands to its right. The eastern projection is polygonal with a semi-pyramidal roofline, and the southern elevation features a recessed Palladian window set in a half-timbered upper section.
The carved Queen Anne chimney and the recessed Palladian window mark this façade for you, just before the point north of Cromwell Cove opens onto Frenchman Bay.