Sunset Cliff

USA / Maine / Blue Hill /
 tourism, architecture - Do not use this category, music -to be removed/cleaned, place with historical importance
Built by George A. Clough in 1888 for Effie Hinckley Kline, this cottage was occupied for many summers by Effie's sister Lizzie Merrill (See Parker House). Originally called "la Mascotte" after one of Mrs. Kline's favorite operettas*, it was enlarged after 1900 and renamed. In the 1940s it became the property of the Carver family and is currently owned by Charles and Betty Carver's daughter Victoria, who has recently undertaken a comprehensive and long-overdue shoring-up of the house's foundations.

*Mrs. Kline founded and managed the Boston Ideal Opera Company which in the 1870s and '80s toured with a repertory of Gilbert and Sullivan and other light opera, sometimes to far outposts of the Wild West. See the 1993 movie "Tombstone".
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Coordinates:   44°24'17"N   68°34'6"W

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  • This is one of the first handful Parker Point cottages, built by the woman to whom the Blue Hill summer colony owes much of its character. In its original form it was quite modest, and appears to have been designed for a family with young children. This was its use for several years after completion, as the owner's sister and family stayed there intermittently from 1888 until 1900. The architect's original presentation drawings are in the collection of the Maine Historical Commission, which kindly made copies available to the present writer (grandson of one of the children who summered here) for use during Blue Hill's 2012 house tour.
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