The Nathan Trotter Shingle Style cottage at Grindstone Neck, Winter Harbor, Maine, was designed in the Shingle Style by Philadelphia architect Lindley Johnson and built in 1891-92.
Four miles across Frenchman’s Bay from Bar Harbor, the summer cottage community at Grindstone Neck was laid out in 1890 and within two years featured a hotel, casino, yacht club, golf course, steamboat wharf, and around forty privately owned cottages. Like the majority of the cottage owners, Nathan Trotter was a Philadelphian and one of the investors in the development of Grindstone Neck as a summer colony.
The wing at left with the wonderful, bracketed balcony was added to the cottage before Trotter’s death in 1915. The second owner of the cottage, Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, named the house “Park Cottage.” The cottage colony at Grindstone Neck remains exceptionally well preserved.
Thanks to my friend and fellow architectural historian Brad Emerson, aka The Downeast Dilettante on Instagram, for his research and knowledge of Grindstone Neck.
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