Highseas facts for kids
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Highseas
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 Location in Maine
Location in the United States
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| Nearest city | Bar Harbor, Maine |
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| Area | 0.8 acres (0.32 ha) |
| Built | 1912 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 78000326 |
| Added to NRHP | November 30, 1978 |
Highseas is a historic summer home in Bar Harbor, Maine. It was built a long time ago, in 1912. This large house is on Mount Desert Island, right next to Acadia National Park.
Highseas is special because it survived a huge fire in 1947 that destroyed many other grand homes on the island. Today, the Jackson Laboratory owns Highseas. They use it to house students who come for their special summer science program. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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What is Highseas Like?
Highseas sits on a high piece of land looking out over Frenchman Bay. It's a very big house, about two and a half stories tall. The house is built from special brick made in Philadelphia. It has a sloped roof with a flat deck on top. You can also see five brick chimneys and many windows sticking out from the roof.
Architectural Style and Features
The house is built in the Colonial Revival style. This means it looks like older American colonial homes, but with grander details. The building is mostly rectangular. It has ten wide sections with smaller parts sticking out on the sides.
Most of the windows slide up and down. But the south side of the house has a sunroom with large windows that open outwards. The main front door is on the west side. It has a covered porch with tall, fancy columns.
The side of the house facing the bay also has a porch. This porch has columns and stretches across the middle of the building.
The History of Highseas
Highseas was designed by a local architect named Fred Savage. It was built in 1912 for Rudolph Brunnow. He was a professor at Princeton University.
Owners Through the Years
In 1924, Professor Brunnow sold Highseas to Mrs. Eva Van Cortland Hawkes. She was a very wealthy person and a descendant of Gouverneur Morris, an important figure in early American history.
Later, Mrs. Hawkes' family gave the property to the Jackson Laboratory. This laboratory has other buildings nearby in Bar Harbor. Now, Highseas is a home for students who come to the laboratory for their summer studies.
