REAL ESTATE HANCOCK COUNTY CLASSIFIEDS SOCIALS SERVICE The Bar Harbor SELECTS D Times July 9. 1998 HISTORIC HOUSES ON VIEW across the eastern entrance to Blue Hill by Laurie Schreiber Bay With the automation of lighthouses in the 1970s and the elimination of the full. TREMONT - A narrow, din driveway winding off the Dix Point Road opens up time keeper's position. the attached cottage spectacularly to a view of rolling pastures became scenic housing for high-ranking Coast Guard officers leading down to a scenic cove A vintage orchard stands opposite the striking Inside. the house is fully modernized summer home of Sam Hamill and his with gleaming appliances and wall-to-wall family, a venerable house and barn going carpeting A narrow staircase and tiny back to Civil War days Given the name of closets that barely fit the width of hanger "Goose Gables by a previous owner. for hint at the age of the structure. The 32-foce its place above Goose Cove as well as the tall lighthouse with its musty scent of seven steep gables that distinguish its bricks and winding, cast iron stairway facade, the Gothic Revival structure has aloft, offers a spectacular view of the harbor. Next door is the old bell house been traced back to its original owner. Albiom K.P. Lunt. who migrated from where a small bell was struck by hand Outer Long Island during fog and periods of reduced Mr. Hamill's home is one of eight that visibility. With its narrow windows and will be featured on this weekend's confined space, it has been transformed Centennial Club Historic House Tour The into cozy guest cottage tour is the brainchild of Irving and Nancy Other structures highlight the Silverman of Bernard who started up the transformations of technology over the years club several years ago. In that time. about In 1898. fog signal machinery, a Shipman cell 80 people have signed on to participate in engine. was installed 16 strike a new 4,000- seasonal gatherings, with the focus on pound fog hell. In 1901. the engine was homes. stores and other structures in replaced with a metronicine weight shaft and Tremont that are at least 100 years old striking machine which would deliver a Over the past year. each house has become blow every 10 seconds and could run for five the research subject of the club's archivist. hours before having to be reset In 1902 a Frances Martin. who has meticulously brick oil house was built. and in 1905. a documented their origins for a collection of barn The metronome has since disappeared The Bass Harbor Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage MARUORS MONTHLESS brief anecdotes and photographs The but the other structures remain Historic Homes of the Town of Tremont Each of the homes on the tour was environmental planner from New Jersey kitchen, the huge oven that once took up an Coast Guard Commander James Murray A Perspective in Time. that is now available selected for the unique glimpse of history it and a trustee of College of the Atlantic, be entire wall was found to be in bad shape and his wife, Carol. have made this their in connection with the tour. offers Hosted by the Centennial Club of and his family have sojourned to Mount and removed here. the floor retains the home over the past two years. on a tour of The development of the tour and book the Tremont Historical Society, the Historic Desert Island for three decades now When original heart of cedar that has hurnished duty that will extend another year. The House Tour will be held this weekend. on are aimed at both enhancing community they decided to buy place. it lighthouse and cottage pride and sharing the area's enduring Saturday July 11 from 10:30 am to p.m. was not only the house and surrounded by Acadia National history The Silvermans were inspired to In response to an overwhelming number of ocean view but 10 acres of Duilt on two acros of land that at Park are the province of the cover the east week in has been