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Description
Card 135 Upper Ridge, also called the Fox & Perry House, is the property tax record for a duplex house owned by E. Carlton Hotchkiss at the time of the survey, around 1938.
The card was later updated to reflect ownership by Marvin Pitt Hotchkiss and later, Earle C. Hotchkiss Jr. Artists Curtis Perry and Charles Fox, who operated a summer art school in Bridgton in the early years of the twentieth century, built the house.
The shape of the house was apparently designed to resemble Pleasant Mountain, which could be seen across Highland Lake. Fox and Curtis established elaborate gardens above the house, blasting a ledge containing an unusual mix of granite and other minerals in the neighboring town of Waterford and hauling tons of rock six miles using with horses. A large rock that stood about eight feet high in the center is said to have taken 12 yokes of oxen to move.
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About This Item
- Title: Upper Ridge, (Fox & Perry House), Bridgton, ca. 1938
- Creator: Town of Bridgton
- Creation Date: circa 1938
- Subject Date: circa 1938
- Location: Bridgton, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper, photograph
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 38 cm
- Local Code: Card 135 Upper Ridge
- Collection: 1930s Tax Assessors Records
- Object Type: Text and Image
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Bridgton Historical Society5 Gibbs Ave PO Box 44, Bridgton, ME 04009
(207) 647-3699
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