The Starr Cottage, Dark Harbor $1,950,000
One of Islesboro's most cherished and oft admired cottages is now offered for sale. This classic 1790's post-and-beam cape is idyllically nestled between glorious sunrise and sunset waterviews over Dark Harbor and Gilkey Harbor and the outer islands. In 1899, Dr. Louis Starr, a noted Philadephia pediatrician purchased the Susan Pendleton house and transformed it into a wonderful summer residence. This lovely five-bedroom home with its eclectic blend of Greek and Colonial Revival styles, dormered roof lines, clapboard siding, and splendid porches has over 4,000 crisply appointed and restored square feet of year-round living space.
The rambling interior features a formal twin "good morning" stairway, a large two-level living room overlooking Dark Harbor Pool with two fireplaces, a restored dining room and sitting area with built-in hutches, fir flooring and the original fireplace hearth and warming oven, a study with rugged hand-hewn beams with a half bath with restored marble and nickel-finish fixtures. The kitchen with its cathedral ceiling, exposed cross beams, and hearth area, has a tasteful wall of windows taking full advantage of the westerly harbor views. An adjoining butler's pantry and full laundry just upstairs serve to center domestic activity.
The master suite enjoys the morning sun and and has a fireplace and full bath with twin marble sinks, shower, and clawfoot tub and dressing room. The second floor includes four additional bedrooms with ample closet space and two full baths. The house and boathouse are sited on about 2.4 acres with 183 feet along the shore of Ames Cove. The large lawn is meticulously landscaped with perennial beds, interspersed with birch, maple, apple and pine and edged with cedar trees.
Sabbathday Harbor Look Out $1,200,000
Sweeping views of Ryder Cove, Islesboro's eastern shoreline. Private wooded location on 6.5 acres near former Drexel estate and Hutchins Island preserve with 438 feet of harbor beach. Well-maintained three bedroom home with many improvements and enhancements. Gracious open floorplan and wraparound deck. Excellent rental income history. Adjacent four acre shorelot for sale.
Exceptional Hewes Point Waterview Cottage $749,900
Completely renovated and updated by one of Islesboro's own master carpenters. Designed with a carefull eye to detail, flow and function. A must see. New England cedar shingled exterior belies the crisp interior decor and tasteful furnishings. Fine woodworking and beadboard, clean white finish and highlights, hardwood floors. Inviting foyer, cozy sitting and dining room with tiled hearth and woodstove, cheery kitchen, vaulted ceiling living room and fireplace. Master bedroom and bath, two bedroom guest suite with private baths, fourth bedroom or office and bath, and attached garage and studio. Almost a half acre, 10 foot ROW to gravel beach. Meticulous landscaping, delightful deck and hillside rock garden. Hewes Point Road is a cherished historic neighborhood of charming waterfront and view homes with road's end at the point. Town tennis courts, library, Historical Society, and Big Tree Boating all nearby.
Two-Bedroom Meadow Pond Ranch $349,000
On acre plus lot with open fields and pondfrontage. Sunporch, open deck, garage. Just the right size and location.
New Home, Woody Point, Ryder Cove Lane $299,000
Tucked away in a quiet and cherished historic island summer enclave, this well constructed modular home just needs your finishing touch. Two bedrooms and baths, hardwood floors. Open loft space for additional rooms. Dramatic master bedroom and living-dining cathedral ceilings. Enjoy a picturesquesly framed view of East Penobscot Bay.
Historic Meadow Pond Four-Bedroom Home New Price: $410,000
Pastoral setting, almost an acre, on large sunset pond, this care-fully refreshed home is in immaculate condition and virtually new with an eye to safety and efficiency throughout. All systems and surfaces replaced, repaired, or repainted. Living room fireplace, two full baths, attached garage and a large awninged deck to enjoy the landscaped view and water's edge. Furnishings negotiable.
Classic 1842 Captain's Cape $398,000
Once part of East Merrill Farm, a handsome home near Dark Harbor. Great family opportunity; price anticipates renovation. Five bedrooms, 1.5 baths, three fireplaces, wide board and hard pine flooring, 2,500 square feet living space, two attic bedrooms, attached 20x25 barn, five acre landscaped sunny yard, woodland path and pond.
A Going Concern $365,000
Well established garage in prime island location. 5 bays, 3,000 square feet shop space, 2,400 square feet storage. State inspection station. Includes four bedroom home. Great place to retire, almost.
County Road 1848 Cape $285,000
Home, sweet, four-bedroom home! A swing hanging from a magnificent maple in the front yard. Needs some work and updating but well worth the investment. Pleasant lot with sun and shade next door to the library on a quiet side road. Birch, apple, walnut, mountain ash, rhododendrum, raspberry, and sumac abound.
Dark Harbor. Older Shingle-style Residence/Workshop/Gallery $285,000
Prestigious address. Whimsical design, multiple use workshop architect-owner renovation to residence on a half acre lot. Living room and conservatory, kitchen, master bedroom and office/bedroom. Innovative use of antique fixtures. Front gallery space and garage. Attached one bedroom, one bath apartment. This is a fun house. Possible owner financing.
Three-Bedroom Mid-Island Home $237,000
Rural setting close to town, central to library, tennis, post office, shops. Sunny deck and kitchen, private covered porch. Hardwood flooring, lots of closet space. Lots of workspace and storage. Detached heated 24x30 workshop. Well kept and easy care. Tastefull landscaping. Multi-use property in great location.
1870's Rebel Hill Three Bedroom $220,000
Center island location atop historic area of Islesboro. Plenty of room, approximately 1,500 square feet, detached garage with power, and 2.8 acres. Entry enclosed porch, kitchen, attached shed, dining room, living room with hearth, three bedrooms and full bath upstairs, hard pine flooring, FHW baseboard heat, shared well. Needs some updating. Large yard wooded with apple, oak, cedar, and spruce, and a duck pond.
SHOREFRONT AND OFFWATER LAND LISTINGS
Hermits Point Shorefront Lot $695,000
Situated on the banks of West Penobscot Bay, this splendid 12.45 acre parcel offers wonderful open woods and cleared building site. A private drive meanders through the property to an open hillside meadow and an enchanting cove with 235 feet of frontage on Sprague's Cove. Protective restrictions and covenants assure the quality of your estate.
Dramatic East Shore Drive Shorelot $425,000
4.2 acre parcel consisting of 1.5 acres with 990 feet of bold deepwater shoreline and beach and an elevated 2.7 acre building lot perched across lightly trafficked East Shore Drive. Timber harvested in 2000 to open up views of East Penobscot Bay and create potential home sites.
Deep Cove Lane $499,000
Beautiful, unspoiled Sabbathday Harbor. Four rolling acres of woods and fern meadow, 366 feet of gravel beach. Excellent elevated building sites, soils tested. Breathtaking views of East Penobscot Bay and Ryder Cove summer enclave across the harbor.
Broad Cove, Gilkey Harbor $475,000
Prime water front lot with sweeping harbor views of boats swinging on their moorings, and Camden Hills sunsets. Four acres and 200 feet of shore line and pleasant gravel beach. Convenient to the ferry and town with a good wooded buffer of spruce and fir. Several natural building sites among a magnificent open stand of mature oaks. Enjoy the prevalent refreshing southwest breeze. Common drive and underground power installed. Soils test available.
Ryder Cove Waterfront Lot $390,000
Almost eleven pristine acres, over 1,000 feet of cove beaches and wooded shore point. Soils tested, many site options, abundant wildlife and abutting conservancy. A unique opportunity.
Kedears Hill Lots $130,000 and $100,000, Both $179,000
Two lots, totaling 18.2 acres (11.27 and 6.93 acres respectively) and a cleared house site on one of Islesboro's highest points with 455 feet of combined road frontage gently sloping almost half a mile to the island centerline. Potential distant northeasterly water views of upper Penobscot Bay with selective cutting. Some building height limits in a small easement area less than an acre. Lush mixed woodland in peaceful "up-island".
East Shore Drive Building Lots $150,000 each; $280,000 together
Dark Harbor area, 3.24 and 1.19 hillside acres; land rises to your choice of several potential building sites. Sun-dappled woods; beech, yellow and white birch, pine, spruce, fir and cedar trees. A rare opportunity with today's inventory.
Meadow Pond Frontage $100,000
Sunny sites on over two acres of gently sloping fields rising to a sylvan look out knoll at pond's edge and 207 feet frontage. Soils tested and septic system easement, excellent southwesterly exposure. Pathways and footbridge wend their way to glorious sunsets.
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