From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
View from Edsel Ford's, Seal Harbor, Me. 34t.
"View from Edsel Ford's, Seal Harbor, Me. 34t." Edsel Ford "View from Edsel Ford's house, Skylands looking east. One can see Crowninsheld Point with a steamboat just behind it. Behind the steamer is Sutton Island followed by Great Cranberry. To the right one can see Bear Island, and at the upper right is Greenings island."--Willie Granston, 2011
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LB2007.1.111743
111743
[included in the exhibit "Hancock County Through Eastern's Eye"] LB2007.1.111743 View from Edsel Ford's Home, Seal Harbor, ME. 34T. Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's only child, built "Skylands," his summer home in Seal Harbor, between 1922 and 1925. Designed by Duncan Candler, who also designed the John D. Rockefeller house and other Mt. Desert Island summer homes, it has a splendid over Dodge Point (formerly Crowninshield Point), with a steamboat just behind it, toward Thrumb Cap, Sutton Island, and Great Cranberry. To the right one can see Bear Island and, at the upper right, Greenings Island. The square house with two chimneys in the lower left of the photo was built c. 1887 is "Overbrook." It was later called "The Yellow Box" and subsequently "Beach Haven" and is now owned by the granddaughter of Abby Rockefeller Milton. The driveway at the right edge of the photo leads to the Seaside Inn. Caption: Anne Stebbins Funderburk and Willie Granston
