Philler Cottage

Philler Cottage
Location Jetty Rd. & Pendleton Point Rd., Dark Harbor, Islesboro, Maine
Coordinates 44°15′31″N 68°54′45″W / 44.25861°N 68.91250°W / 44.25861; -68.91250Coordinates: 44°15′31″N 68°54′45″W / 44.25861°N 68.91250°W / 44.25861; -68.91250
Area 0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built 1894 (1894)
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
NRHP Reference # 85000726[1]
Added to NRHP April 11, 1985

The Philler Cottage, until recently the Dark Harbor House Inn, is a historic house at Pendleton Point and Jetty Roads in Islesboro, Maine. Built in 1894 for a wealthy Philadelphia banker, it is a high-quality regional example of a Georgian Revival summer house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

Description and history

The town of Islesboro occupies an eponymous island in Penobscot Bay, on the central Maine coast. The island is roughly shaped as two lobes joined by a narrow isthmus. The Philler Cottage is located close to the village of Dark Harbor, at the northern end of a peninsula that juts south from the southern lobe of the island. It is set on a roughly triangular property bounded on the north by Pendleton Point Road (the main north-south road on that part of the island) and on the south by Jetty Road. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboard siding, and a two-story servants wing extending to one side. The roof is pierced by two brick chimneys and several gabled dormers, and is topped by a widow's walk railing. The long sides of the house each have an entrance sheltered by a porch with Tuscan columns, and an upper-level balustrade with posts topped by urns. A two-story porch, also supported by Tuscan columns, adorns the west side.[2]

The house was built in 1894-96 to a design by architect Fred Savage of Bar Harbor, Maine, for George Philler, a wealthy banker from Philadelphia. Philler was one of a number of Philadelphia businessmen who organized an exclusive resort development in the Dark Harbor area, which was anchored by the now-lost Islesboro Inn. The house had until recently served as the Dark Harbor House Inn,[2] which has since closed.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Philler Cottage" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
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