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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 2 of 6

"Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1925Mount Desert Island Historical Society Asticou Inn…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 3 of 6

"Garden Party at the Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1935Mount Desert Island Historical Society The summer community bustled with leisure…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou Asticou Inn employees, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1910Mount Desert Island Historical Society Maintaining…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"Young Charles was no doubt friendly with the eccentric Curtis both at the Inn and on the hiking trails at Asticou."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 6 of 6

"… By 1965 when Charles neither owned the Asticou Inn nor managed the Asticou Terraces Trust, much of his impressive conservation and preservation…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Lodging and Hotels: A Savage Family Business

"UNDER CONSTRUCTION Asticou Inn Owned by family members Augustus Chase Savage, George A. Savage, and Charles K. Savage from 1883-1964."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old House (circa 1820-2013)

"… Inn burned in early September 1900 and the “new” Asticou Inn, which still stands today in 2013, designed by A.C."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Postscript: More Moving Buildings

"Rose Lane has survived as a year round home in the Asticou neighborhood but has regularly been rented out in the summer months by its owners over the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"… View North Up Asticou Way and Ryefield Lane from Asticou Inn ca. 1925Northeast Harbor Library As the newspaper article references, during the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… on a corner of Peabody Drive above the Asticou Inn where the main road of Route 3 meets the upper end of the Asticou Way as well as Asticou Hill…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… House, and about 30 acres of vacant land in Asticou spanning from Route 3 across from the Inn to northward as far as Forest Hill Cemetery, came…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… 1870 had begun taking summer boarders, built the Asticou Inn. Soon other hotels followed in Northeast Harbor."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"Eight hotels were built. They included the Asticou Inn (1883), Indian Head (1887), Kimball House (1886), Rock End Hotel (1884), Roberts House (1883)…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… family cemetery near the site of the present day Asticou Inn, and later moved with their gravestones along with other family members up the hill to…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"Asticou Inn, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1945Great Harbor Maritime Museum During the 1930s, Northeast Harbor’s economy was not immune from the Great…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"They built a cabin where the Asticou Inn now stands. Nearby Seal Harbor was settled six years later, when carpenter William Roberts built a log cabin…"