Jordan Pond Gate Lodge - Acadia National Park

 Tudor (architecture), toll gate, public control, French Renaissance (architecture)

Designed c. 1931 by Grosvenor Atterbury and John Tompkins in the French Renaissance/Tudor Revival style with funds provided by John D. Rockefeller. It was planned to mark the entrance to the carriage roads and prevent automobiles from entering.

Atterbury opted to work in the French tradition--a deliberate reference to the area’s early French Colonial associations. He emphasized the importance of color and materials to harmonize the structure within its setting: he used a seam-faced granite excavated from Cadillac Mountain, weathered and treated pecky cypress, and soft-colored brick from Holland mixed with James River brick from Richmond, VA. He stratified the stone in courses to give the buildings and gates a banded appearance, a technique he adapted from the Le Puys district.

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