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Stop 24 of 29 · Bar Harbor audio walking tour

Reverie Cove

Harbor Lane-Eden Street Historic District · 1895 · Opulent Colonial Revival summer estate

What you'll hear here: about 90 seconds of narration about Reverie Cove, and how it fits Harbor Lane-Eden Street Historic District, written to be listened to on the spot rather than read at home.

Ahead on Harbor Lane rises Reverie Cove, its Colonial Revival grandeur named for a mood of quiet daydream. Designed by local architect Fred L. Savage and built in 1895, this particularly opulent example of Colonial Revival architecture sits near the end of Harbor Lane, overlooking Frenchman Bay and eastward toward the village center of Bar Harbor. The large frame house reads 2+1/2 stories in front and 3+1/2 in back, crowned by a complex hip roof and three brick chimneys, clad in wooden shingle siding on a granite foundation.

The main facade faces west, away from the water, and is five bays wide, with projecting portico-like sections at both ends. Stylistically identical, one shelters the main entrance while the other forms a covered porch; both are topped by recessed balconies and supported by paired large square columns. Between them you can see a band of four diamond-pane sash windows, and above at the second level a large round-arch diamond-pane window.

A later owner was New York City mayor Abram Hewitt. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and joined the Harbor Lane-Eden Street Historic District in 2009. Follow the roofline and columns out to where the water meets the village beyond.

Where it is

Coordinates
44.39028, -68.21556
Area
Harbor Lane-Eden Street Historic District
Era
1895 · Opulent Colonial Revival summer estate
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Three stops free. No account needed. The audio plays itself as you walk.